Does anyone know of a way to get Perl to read in (say from a plain ASCII text file) only a character at a time instead of a whole line at a time? -carole - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Carole E. Mah Carole_Mah@Brown.edu Programmer/Analyst Brown University Women Writers Project http://www.wwp.brown.edu/ personal: http://www.wwp.brown.edu/~carolem/ ***** Want to unsubscribe from this list? ***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch