Rick wrote: >i tried: > >while(<FILE>) { > $_ = s/\r/\n/g; Should be: $_ =~ s/\r/\n/g; Or as Chris suggested: s/\r/\n/g; > } David Steffen, Ph.D. President, Biomedical Computing, Inc. <http://www.biomedcomp.com/> Phone: (713) 610-9770 FAX: (713) 610-9769 E-mail: steffen@biomedcomp.com ===== Want to unsubscribe from this list? ===== Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to macperl-request@macperl.org