Thanks to everyone who helped me with this one, I had a deadline to meet that is now met.
It was a missing ~ and me failing to use s on the end of my pattern may be of use to other users but for some reason my Linux server needs s///s; to match over newlines and my OSX set up doesn't, that didn't help ;) Angie -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>