Leonid Grinberg wrote: > my @split_line = split(/\:/, $line); You don't have to escape the colon in a regular expression.
> my $home = $split_line[5]; > my @split_home = split(/\/, $home); ^^^ Syntax error. The terminating delimiter is missing. > return uc($split_home[scalar(@split_home) - 1]); "scalar(@split_home) - 1" could also be written as "$#split_home" or just "-1". John -- Perl isn't a toolbox, but a small machine shop where you can special-order certain sorts of tools at low cost and in short order. -- Larry Wall -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/