Well, hey, I don't have time (and nor do you i expect) to respond to posts - haha. I have looked at perlmonks and briefly at tek-tips but the reality is I'm busy (as I am sure you are). I rarely (since the pure newsgroups of the mid 90's) gotten much hel p from the internet. I have just been trying to help when someone helped me (aka daniweb system help). I could migrate to these other forums, but I don't have the time...
Thanks Kevin.
Mike
And don't tell me there isn't one bit of difference between null and space, because that's exactly how much difference there is.
Larry Wall