Although setting $/ to "" is mentioned, saying Perl treats empty lines as delimiters, I think it may be useful to explicitly mention that: { $/ = ""; chomp(@para = <FH>); } Removes all the \n's at the end of each "paragraph". This is a rather special case. I could submit a patch if you're gonna be all "submit a patch"y about it. -- MIDN 4/C PINYAN, USNR, NROTCURPI http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ jeff pinyan: japhy@pobox.com perl stuff: japhy+perl@pobox.com "The Art of Perl" http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/book/ CPAN ID: PINYAN http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/id/P/PI/PINYAN/ PerlMonth - An Online Perl Magazine http://www.perlmonth.com/Thread Next