Howdy, why isn't $i incrementing? here's sample of data file containing date and filename: 021211 archive/summer.html 021211 archive/summer.html 021211 archive/tipsheet.html 021211 arts.html 021211 arts.html 021211 arttherapy.html 021211 arttherapy.html 021211 arttherapy.html 021211 award.html 021211 award.html 021211 award.html 021211 award.html 021211 bio.html 021211 bio.html here's the code thus far: 1 #!/usr/bin/perl -w 2 3 get_data(); 4 5 #get data, split into date, and url 6 sub get_data{ 7 8 open(IN, "/dept/unxmkt/bin/hits_news/data.txt") or die ("There is n o file: $!\n"); 9 10 open OUT, ">>/dept/unxmkt/bin/hits_news/log.txt") or die ("no cant write to out file $!\n"); 11 12 my @url = (); 13 my $line = 0; 14 my $date = 0; 15 my $num = 0; 16 17 while ($line=<IN>) { 18 chomp($line); 19 ($date, @url)=split(/ /, $line); 20 21 $num = scalar(@url); 22 print ("num = $num\n"); 23 24 for ($i=0; $i<$num; $i++){ 25 print ("$i = $url[$i]\n"); 26 } 27 28 } 29 30 31 32 close IN; 33 close OUT; 34 35 } #end get_data output: num = 1 0 = archive/summer.html num = 1 0 = archive/summer.html num = 1 0 = archive/tipsheet.html thanks for any help, PamThread Next