On Apr 9, 2007, at 8:48 PM, Jay Hannah wrote: > -ponder- I've always used > > open(IN, $file) open( my $fh, $file ) is identical to open(IN,$file) except that $fh is a lexical variable, and IN is a global. -- Andy Lester => andy at petdance.com => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance