Greetings: I found that I have to use chr(211) in place of a right-side curly quote (option-shift-[) or the Alpha editor fails to send the script to MacPerl. It works fine if you enter the script into MacPerl directly. The whole script fails, even if the curly quotes are in a comment line, so I assume it's in Alpha's perl.tcl file. I did upgrade to the just-posted perl.tcl file. - Nik Willmore