Ronald Edward Petty wrote: >how do you get command line args in a perl script > >myscript -a asdf -b fdsa etc > they'll be in @ARGV or you can use the Getopt module(s) see http://cpan.uky.edu/ and look for getopt. -- John Soward Lead Systems Programmer, Technical Services, University of Kentucky p: 859.257.2900x298 e:soward at uky.edu w: http://neworder.cc.uky.edu/