Mark Hunt writes: |It seems that when I increase the size of |the text file to about 80 lines, Netscape kicks back a message to the effect |of "Document contains no data" It sounds like your script is failing for some reason. Try running your script directly under the debugger and see what it does. As for reading text files, I have scripts that read files many thousands of lines long without a problem. If your problem is related to file size, it's probably a problem with your script, not Perl itself. Brian ***** Want to unsubscribe from this list? ***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch