Chris Nandor writes: |However, I do not think it is possible that this could happen as long as |your input record separator ($/) is not changed (because a newline will |always be in $line). Unless the last line in the file doesn't end in a newline. If the last two characters in the file are "\n0", while ($line = <IMAGES>) will skip the zero. Brian ***** Want to unsubscribe from this list? ***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch