Ronald wrote: > Also, when you say 'curly quotes', I assume you mean > 'double quotes'. Perl doesn't recognize curly quotes. Actually, I think he means curly braces. I've never used this exact syntax, so I could be totally wrong here, but I think the "printf" line should look like: printf "%.${columnz}s\n", $_; ^ Notice the dot "Maybe", he said timidly. jay ===== Want to unsubscribe from this list? ===== Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to macperl-request@macperl.org