Thanks for the post. Right now I think it has more to do with my inexperience of passing values in a list context to an array than it does with the switch. I've tried creating the same desired result on other prompts (telnet on my local desktop) and got nothing but failure. Like I said in one of my previous posts, I'm able to pass the individual lines to $values but unable to pass the list context values to an @array. Any and all help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!