According to George Michel: > > If I run this from MPW, having named it Filename and corrected $name, I > get: > This is purely an MPW problem. Unlike standard C, Pascal, etc..., MPW returns the entire line and it is left up to the person writing the program to get rid of the extraneous input. This doesn't happen under the regular MacPerl or even the 68K MacPerl programs. Also, Think C/Pascal, and CodeWarrior correctly dispose of the prompt line for you. Same for Chipmunk Basic, FutureBasic, and almost any other non-MPW language I know of. :-) ***** Want to unsubscribe from this list? ***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch