Do you mean use the result from such a call, or how to do such a call? I'm guessing doing the call, and a somewhat wild guess is: HTTP::Status::status_message($rc) Assuming $rc has been set to something You may need to do a: use HTTP::Status; or similar, before you make the call. And that might mean you need to install the HTTP::Status module. Otoh, I've never used HTTP::Status... hth. > How would I adapt the else print statement to use > HTTP::Status status_message($rc)? > > TIA > > drew > -- snip -- > use LWP::Simple; > > while (<>){ > if (get $_) { > # url is ok > print; > } else { > # couldn't get url > print "\nAn error occured with $_\n"; > } > }