Subj : Spliiting a command line into two options To : David Drummond From : Sean Rima Date : Sun Aug 17 2003 12:33 pm Hello David. 17 Aug 03 19:47, you wrote to me: SR>> I am trying to grab options from a command line basically which SR>> looking like: SR>> tcob1tes this is a test SR>> I want $a to be tcob1tes and $b to be this is a test DD> I'd read $ARGV[0] into $a, then set up a loop to read the rest of the DD> $ARGV array, concatenate the bits with spaces, and shove it in $b... I did that in the end, works a treat. Sean --- GoldED+/W32 1.1.5-030609 * Origin: TCOB1 A slice of life in your inbox (2:263/950) .