On Fri, 13 Feb 1998 13:16:00 -0600 (CST), Mark Manning/Muniz Eng. wrote: >Which means the local command only makes the variables >global to those routines which are contained with the >routine which created them. Not global to all programs. Wrong phrasing. "local" variables are accessible in all subs CALLED from within your block. "my" variables are not. Bart. ***** Want to unsubscribe from this list? ***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch