To everyone who helped with my sorting array problem, thanks. I worked it out a couple of ways and it is working now. I am new to programming and perl, and the books primarily focus on sorting single lines and not much on arrays. In fact not one book mentioned the map function. Again thanks. alan :) ===== Want to unsubscribe from this list? ===== Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to macperl-request@macperl.org