Hahaha!!! I found the problem.... Look at the first line of my original code. Look at the shebang. Missing a !? :-)

I wrote:

#/usr/local/bin/perl

instead of

#!/usr/local/bin/perl

Took me absolute ages to figure that out! In end it becamse obvious that it wasn't a Perl problem but the system couldn't figure out what on earth I was tyring to do :-\

ROFL! Grrrrrrrrr......

Cheers

Wil

- wil