Really? I get them all the time using LWP at the end of successful runs. In fact, I use it as a signal: when the MacPerl window pops up with "Scalars leaked: 4" in the background, I know that my script has successfully finished once again. The attached LWP test script both runs successfully and gives the "Scalars leaked: 4" message at the end. (Speaking of LWP, 5.14 is out and I should get a chance to put together the .sit.hqx in the next couple of days). } }> Otherwise I'm apt to wake up one morning and find myself }> splashing about in several feet of leaked scalars. } }Whatever scalars get leaked are mopped up when the MacPerl application quits }:-) } }Matthias } }----- }Matthias Neeracher <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch> http://www.iis.ee.ethz.ch/~neeri } "I'm set free to find a new illusion" -- Velvet Underground Attachment converted: /:common-req.t (TEXT/MSIE) (01000253) --- Paul J. Schinder NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Code 693, Greenbelt, MD 20771 schinder@pjstoaster.pg.md.us