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Message: [QUOTE="Uri Guttman, post: 4862072"] CC> Thanks for your input uri. CC> Some of my code probably ended up pretty sloppy since my 60 minute project CC> turned into about 3 hours worth of frustrations. (Fortunately, I was CC> running it on a test system, so no real data loss occurred.) CC> For example, I should not have needed someone to point out I CC> should have used: my $mtime = (stat($entry))[9] instead of the CC> long drawn out method I and there are -X entries that will get you info like that so you can avoid the stat slice too. CC> I also simplified a few other items and cleaned up the superfluous CC> syntax. (But I kept the end of line comments because that's how I CC> like to do it... and at least I add comments.) good for you that you add comments. how you like to do it is not as important as how people like to read. perl style is generally not to comment on the same line and you don't see it much in perl code. so it is better for you to adhere to the more common style of comments on their own lines. and as i said you get more room and multiline comments work. also you can line wrap those comments (most decent editors can do this) with a command to keep them readable. uri [/QUOTE]