Seems that it is still in the file upload somewhere, running just the isolated code... #!/usr/bin/perl print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; $x = "a\tb\t\t\t\n"; chomp $x; @x = split (/\t/, $x); foreach $f (@x) { $count++; } print "$count"; exit; gives me just 2 with the Unix server. So I guess I'll keep digging. Thanks for the help. Scott ===== Want to unsubscribe from this list? ===== Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to macperl-request@macperl.org