Basically what i want is a substitute function. Like 'replace()' but for strings rather than characters. I would like the servlet to open up a template file replace keys with strings (which are values taken from a database... not that that matters) then print the resulting data to the browsing client. In this way i can liberate input and output data forms from the servlet allowing others to change them with no knowledge of java, nor needing to recompile etc. Infact the changes would be basically on the fly. Did that make sense? Anyway. With perl i would probably do something *like* ... $value =~ s/<key>/$value/g; (please note the *like*) Thanks people Dean -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
