On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 james.madill at duke.edu wrote: ... > while(<HEADERS>){ > chomp; > $line = $_; > $idx = index($line, "Subject: "); > if ($idx == 0){ > $msgSubject = substr($line, 9); > } > } The message subject is already available as the global variable $Subject; it's not necessary to parse the HEADERS file. Regards, David.