Howard,
Repeating yourself in your old age... [Razz]

You are correct however that a programmer would try to exclude all potential pitfalls. Guess that's why I'm not a programmer. Always hated the Murphy-proofing.

So my last revision of code is still like swiss cheese. The IF statements under the conditions previously mentioned could return a false positive. I only say could because without knowing what all is in the source text file one can only surmise.

so:
if instr($sending,'sending ')

whould be more accurate as:
if left($sending,8)='sending '

Ditto for:
if instr($receiving,'receiving ')

should be:
if left($receiving,10)='receiving '

As for 'optimistic' code, Ruud had this to say in an interview

quote:
Steve:
Do you have any tips that will help admins write more efficient code?
Ruud:
Mmm, let me think on that for a second.

Adding proper error handling to scripts.

(Most scripts I get to see are, Mmm, very 'optimistic' about the actions in them).
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