I'm reading in from a file where each line contains a precise amount of characters (say 100) How can I read the individual elements of each line? Reason for asking is that these fields in those lines are fixed, so the first 20 contain a value, followed by 2 white spaces, then another 20 and so on alex _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/listinfo/perl-win32-users