Convert::Recode is a front end to the GNU recode program. It will build a perl tr/// function based on the mapping tables that recode knows about. use Convert::Recode qw(ebcdic_to_ascii); while (<>) { print ebcdic_to_ascii($_); } --------------------------------------------------------------------- © 1997 Gisle Aas. All rights reserved. Portions © 1997 Ed Avis, .