I've experienced some strange behaviours in Perl, and in my cases, it proved to be for one of the two following reasons: - The script was a Unix file and not a Mac file - changing the line endings from LF to CR did the trick. - I had written a DOS path ending with a \ just before a " - Bad Idea: my $path = "D:\BLAH\BLAH\"; I don't think you're having any of those problems - but when strange things happen, I always check these two possible causes. /Cajo. ___Carl_Johan_Berglund_________________________ Adverb Information carl.johan.berglund@adverb.se http://www.adverb.se/ ***** Want to unsubscribe from this list? ***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch