On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 11:04:00 -0500, "Eric Cooper" <ecc at cmu.edu> said: > Tell Perl to ignore line separators: > > undef $/; > $scalar = <FILE>; Very nice. TMTOWTDI! -- ~ You are in a maze of twisty passages, all alike. Christopher DeMarco cdemarco at fastmail.fm +6013 389 5658