What would be the easiest way to: 1)Get the number of lines in a file 2)Instead of appending a new line to the end of a file, I need to put new lines at the beginning. Thanks, Jimmy Osborn jimmyo@fastrans.net ***** Want to unsubscribe from this list? ***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch