thanks John & Martin - answered it perfectly, now my other question was whether one can / should do any sort of checking on files uploaded using CGI.pm in the way that you use regular expressions to untaint data, Waspcatcher
> By putting brackets round the section of the regex you want, perl will store > that data in the special $1 variable (it's read only so assign to another > var if you want to make changes. Also the next time you match $1 is > overwritten). You can pull multiple values out of the same regex by putting > multiple () round different sections. The results are stored in $1, $2, $3 > etc in the order of the match. > > HTH > > John > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]