Ron, Richard, Thanks for all you help on using one array to sort another and understanding map more. It's working wonderfully. This mailing list has been a tremendous help. Sorry it's taken so long to get back to all of you. Thanks again!! alan :) PS: Happy fourth of July ===== Want to unsubscribe from this list? ===== Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to macperl-request@macperl.org