Hello Petter, In popcon-submit.cgi, there is my ($id) = $entry[0] =~ m/POPULARITY-CONTEST-0 .+ ID:(\S+) /; I am not sure I see the point of checking that at this stage (this is redundant with prepop.pl) but you want to check that, why not use the same regexp as prepop.pl: ID:([a-f0-9]{32}) Cheers, -- Bill. <ballombe@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here.