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"Jeffrey Seger" <Jeffrey.Seger@fairchildsemi.com> wrote in message news:OF8797ADBF.37DC6BE5-ON85256BAA.005717B1@fairchildsemi.com... > > if ( $tablename > 1) is going to evaluate to false since the numeric value > of any string is 1. Actually, its a little more complicated than this. A string that starts with non-numeric alphanumeric characters evaluates to 0 when used in numeric context. perl -e 'print "aaa123" + 1;' # prints 1 but when a string starts with numeric characters, evaluates to the number before the first non-numeric alphanumeric number: perl -e 'print "123aaa" + 1;' # woah !!! prints 124 !!! Actually, its even a little more complicated than that. Todd Wade trw3@uakron.edu