Okay, I'll expand a bit.
It will work, providing you use the same case when you use it later....(though it's still bad coding practice to do this)
You didn't specify what to do with the $ICQNum variable. How does it get displayed?
We weren't saying that it was pointless, just that it had been done before. You said it as though it was a great new hack, which it isn't. This was probably in the wrong forum - PERL help or chit chat would have been better.
Just a thought
