Monks, hope all is fine. I am trying to run this relatively simple script that I wrote and I keep getting the error: use: command not found Here is line 18: # 18 is the vi line number indicator 18. use strict; Can somebody give me an idea of why this is happening? Thanks kindly and keep up the good work (BTW, I love this site it has been a great resource for me, oh yes and Perl rocks!)