infoactive@earthlink.net (Don Hamilton) >When using sort -u all results are empty. sort in Perl has no command line options. You might be confusing this with Tcl or the Un*x sort command. Matthias ----- Matthias Neeracher <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch> http://www.iis.ee.ethz.ch/~neeri "Delinquency is the product of the real environment in which the child lives and not of the fiction he reads." -- William Gaines