On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Russell Locke wrote: [...] > my $whack = $/; # to preserve orig line seperator if it was set > $/ = "\n"; Actually, you mean local $/ = "\n"; so you won't have to explicitly turn it back afterwards. -- Ed | | mailto:ed@chronos.net Chronos.Net | http://www.chronos.net/ | mailto:info@chronos.net