Whoops, the first time I sent this it still had a part in it that needs a subdir called dnb. i took that outof this and tested it again. And while i was there, I made one more change as a sanity check, where I had first used
my ($formfill, $formfill1, $formfill2, $formfill3); to declare and initialize these variables.... but with my $formfill = ""; my $formfill1 = "";my $formfill2 = "";my $formfill3 = ""; The output is as I expected. So, it's very valuable to get a problem tidy enough to present to others...the problem often goes away... So now, why did i think I read in the Programming Perl function list that the function my initialized a variable? Should I be using my here? I'm not hiding it from another main program from in a sub like it says it is for...I was just getting use strict to not give errors! John Griessen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
