Subj : Re: Spliiting a command line into two options To : Sean Rima From : Bob Swift Date : Sun Aug 17 2003 11:04 am -=> Sean Rima wrote to All <=- SR> I am trying to grab options from a command line basically which looking SR> like: tcob1tes this is a test SR> SR> I want $a to be tcob1tes and $b to be this is a test Try something like: $a = shift @ARGV; $b = join ' ', @ARGV; Works for me. Bob -+- blueMail/Linux 1.1 --- BBBS/LiI v4.01 Flag-5 * Origin: The Power Station BBS * powerstationbbs.ca * (1:342/5) .