Hi ! Sorry for the previous posting, im not yet completely awake ;o) > > >How can the param's be placed into a new hash? > > > > CGI.pm has a Vars() method, I believe, which returns a hash. > > > > use CGI; > > my $q = CGI->new; > > $data = $q->Vars; > > > > print $data->{field}; # etc. Just a little add on: I had to use CGI ':cgi-lib'; to get the $q->Vars function working. I think %data = $q->vars would be better to read and I'm not sure if the Vars() function returns a reference or a hash. Best regards, -- Jan Gruber Primacom AG Central Systems cat /dev/world | perl -e "while (<>) {(/(^.*? \?) 42 \!/) && (print $1)}" errors->(c) _