I'm finding difficulty keeping my name spaces straight between subroutines and global variables. I've looked at several Perl style guides, but haven't seen anything definitive about naming variables, other the file handles in upper case. Is it OK - recommended - not recommended to do things like All global variables start with upper case letter All local variables start with _ Anyone have advice on this? J. -->John Springer <http://www.scruznet.com/~springer> Still the Penultimate Mac bigot.