>Mladen, > >Thanks for that lovely perl one-liner. >Unfortunately I can get it to run on my PC. (laptop, Winders XP-PRO) . >I am just starting with perl (ActivePerl v5.8.4) and the hieroglyphs of >the language still have me crying into my beer (doesn't taste too bad >actually) >Anyway, the error returned is: > "Can't find string terminator " ' " anywhere before EOF at -e line 1." > >Please could you enlighten me with a book title,url or other source for >a solution? > >Cheers , > >Ron Ooops, my bad :-( I forgot to substitute the single quotes for double quotes. Works fine now. Cheers, Ron ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------