dodger, Maybe you could explain in simple terms to an idiot like me exactly what I can use this for. Bear in mind, I don't even know what 'parse' means. Also, if I have to get Perl, is it some mega installation that's no use for anything else? I installed JRE to get Composer running and it f*%ked up my browser java and took up 40 megs of space. I ended up binning it, and Composer. mac