Duh! Thanks for all the helpful answers to my beginner's blunder. I have to say that I've wrapped my poor brain around most of the Perl books (all the animals) and this little fact about subroutine prototypes escaped me. And > Also, the reason it worked at one point is because it got called before the > prototype was seen. > Chris Nandor makes sense in it's way but was also a surprise to me. Onward to the next stumble! Allan Greenier AutoScript Applications agreenier@snet.net http://www.geocities.com/~autoscript ===== Want to unsubscribe from this list? ===== Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to macperl-request@macperl.org