I am a relative begiiner to MacPerl, and ran into a couple of problems. I searched the manual, but couldn't find any code for deleting a file. It doesn't have to do anything special, just erase the file of the hard drive. Also I have a text file that I need read into a array of some sorts (though preferably associative). Any body have any ideas, this is kind of an emergency. (Projects due in 2 hours...) TIA. Ryan ___________________________ Maybe I'm Just Cursed rwebb@dpts.scjdist57.bc.ca http://www.dpts.schdist57.bc.ca/StudentHomePages/rwebb/homepage.html