Tom - Thanks for the pointer to storable. Think that is what I need for this current operation.
And Chas - Thanks for the pointer to csv. I knew of it, though never used it. I did not know it would escape the delimiter, but of course that makes perfect sense! I think there is some author that is always saying that PERL just does the right thing... I guess it does. - Dale -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/