<html><head></head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>David:<br></div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"> #!/usr/bin/perl -w<br> use strict;<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>Assuming you are using a recent version of perl ( 5.6+ ) hen you shouldn't be using "-w". It's been replaced with "use warnings" instead. <div><br></div><div>So start with:</div><div><br></div><div>#!/usr/bin/perl -T</div><div>use warnings;</div><div>use strict;</div><div><br></div><div>-T tells perl to treat data coming from user space as being "tainted". </div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Raymond </div></body></html>