On Thursday 01 July 2004 16:38, Roderick A. Anderson wrote: > raa at onedomain.com, sbb at twodomain.com someone at example.com, \ > ed at example.geek checkone, checktwo, checklast D:\spool\ertyuihjklyuio.file like this? $input = join ' ', at ARGV; $input =~ s/,\s/,/g; print "<<$input>>\n"; -Ken Brush