Subj : database access using Perl To : mark lewis From : Jame Clay Date : Sun Jul 29 2001 06:33 am Hello mark! 16 Jul 01 14:51, mark lewis wrote to Jame Clay: ml> could it be that you're expecting something that isn't? the nodelist ml> doesn't have a set number of fields in each record... there is a ml> minimum, though... ml> 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 ml> ,10,some_bbs,some_city_NC,some_sysop,1-919-774-5930,2400 That's what that split function is doing; everything after the baud rate is going into the "$flags" variable... ml> oh! and what order are you looking for things in? It's not intelligent to be doing any looking at all! All I'm doing at this point is spliting the line on the commas into 8 varibles... Regards, Jame --- Msged/LNX TE 06 (pre) * Origin: bazaar.rocasa.org (1:120/545) .