On Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 06:10:35PM -0400, Sunny Dubey wrote: > my question is, how do I get it to print the list with each line as the > variable $fruit, as opposed to $fruit being each word. Set the IFS variable to exclude spaces. (Normally it contains a space, a tab, and a newline.) $IFS controls how word splitting is performed. -- Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]