"When you're saving the files, make sure you're not saving them in a windows format -- Windows formats tend to add additional "escape" characters at the end of each line. Perl doesn't understand what these characters are, and so it ... well, it's not real happy with it anyway. :) "

Hi Donna I just thought I would add a tip about this here because you have raised a very valid issue which can often cause scripts to break when uploading from Windows to Unix/Linux servers. My tip is to upload using an FTP programme like WSFTP because this automatically converts the line endings for you. Make sure you do not upload the scripts in Binary format because that is for images. It also works in reverse - i.e. downloading from UNIX to Windows via FTP also converts the line endings. Another way is to use a Macintosh - they have a neat utility in their text editors to convert the line endings into whatever format you need. Hope this tip is useful - it took me ages to find tricks like this because people don't like to share the info, but this is a nice "sharin" community :) Cheers DataFerret