> Or you can use one of the Lingua::* or Parse::* > modules from CPAN. Unless you feel a need to > do everything yourself. ;-) Oh, cool. I didn't know about those. I spose I should have guessed. *bonk Mike* That's what is so cool about Perl: just about everything under the sun is available on CPAN and it's all packaged the same way and works together. The same thing is true about Java; to a lesser extent than Perl but to a greater extent than C and C++. Mike