I want to thank everyone who has helped me with this. and I'm trying to remember to bottom post
ok I have the program working again. but how do I get a var from the package? At the time you are reading this I am still experimenting wih the following: the package has this line in it. $Options="Buy Sell Talk Sleep Work Move"; and the cgi calls the var in the package like this my $V = $main::{$Player{Location} . "::"}{Options}; I am also experiementing with the $glob command Help? Lou -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>