thanks Don and Paul. I am new to perl, and I wrote that script to save time because I had 70 filenames to change. One hour later, my code still did not work. I was doubting whether perl would save me time, but now I know that in the long run it certainly will. It was worth it to work the code until it was fixed. -- Robert Terwilliger, M.S. raterwil@ucla.edu # ===== Want to unsubscribe from this list? # ===== Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to macperl-request@macperl.org