The problem I have is that my little excursions in to perl do not come with the added support of purchasing BBEdit or Alpha for my company's manfacturing site. I am stuck with STDOUT. I know how the format structure works. Is it possible to use sprintf and trail space pad strings similar as you can do with format and write? -- /\ /\ . /\____ _-_ / \ _/\ / \ /\ / \ /\ / \ / \ / \ /\/ \ / \_/\_/ Y \ /\/\/ \ u \/ \___/ \/ \ / \/ \ ----------------------------------v-------------------------------- Richard Christensen KC7JPQ Austin, TX richard@crl.com ***** Want to unsubscribe from this list? ***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch