Richard Owlett writes: > I don't have any background in Perl and the last formal course in > programming was in the 60's. Perl is just bash, ed, sed, awk, grep, etc all smushed together into one. > However awk and/or sed may be what I'm looking for and are well > documented. It's exactly what those tools are for. Don't forget the rest of the toolkit. -- John Hasler jhasler@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA