is there a built in function or module to calculate the length or size of a file? I've tried using "read" but haven't been able to get it to work right. If not how would I go about doing that (finding file length)? --nick cheer, for I hath gotten the Camel book ===== Want to unsubscribe from this list? ===== Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to macperl-request@macperl.org