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Message: [QUOTE="Jim Keenan, post: 4751218"] You will almost certainly have to store _something_ on disk; otherwise you would have to go to the ftp site to see what the next number to be assigned is. But what you store could be as simple as a file containing a hash keyed by 'mmdd' (or, for greater flexibility, 'yyyymmdd') which increments a counter for each key: file: date.config %dateconfig = ( 20031226 => 00005, 20031227 => 00003, ... ) .... in your main package: our (%dateconfig); require date.config; Then increment the number and date and format accordingly with 'sprintf'. Jim Keenan [/QUOTE]