sfisque;
Are "if" and "elsif" any different? will Perl look at all the "ifs" or all the "elsifs"? or will it always stop at the first "if" or "elsif" once the it finds a match?

in a if...elsif..else construct, only ONE of the specificied conditions can be true.. so it will evaluate the IF first and then if that IF isn't TRUE, perl moves on to the first ELSIF.. if that is also not true then every elseif next is evaluated one at a time and in order until either one of the elsif are true OR it finally reaches an ELSE clause, if one is present.. Hope this is readable.. lol

think of if/elsif...else blocks as the perl version of a C switch statement, where each if/elsif is analogous to a case X: and else is the default: subblock.

== sfisque

You people lost me ... :-D Anyway what I did works, I'll try the other one that sfisque posted after that ..see if that works, if it does ...yay, the file will be smaller :)

Regards,
Sonic