POJ - WOW! Impressed by how quick one gets a response. Thank you for adding code to pull the webpage in the script. Also, need to learn to be 'smarter' about parsing. Never occurred to me to just take out the special characters and replace with space. Using the 'pipe' to drop leading and trailing spaces is cool too. Haven't run into Map before but read a little about it today. Need to understand what @$row is/does. Using subroutines was helpful too. This beginner is very appreciative.