Hi, this the Perl emulation module for the C stdio library scanf(). Perl 5 is required. The documentation is in pod format (see perlpod), you can view it by for example pod2man scanf.pm | nroff -man | more Note that the pod cocumentation should be quite readable "as is". I hope you enjoy this little hack. If you find any bugs please do not hesitate to tell me. If you feel like sending me presents please do not hesitate to bribe me. The Makefile.PL can be used like this: perl Makefile.PL If all is well (your Perl is installed ok), Makefile is created. Then you can test whether the scanf emulation works ok: make test You can install the module with make install This attempts to install to where the command 'perl' would like to see its library files. If you want/need to install somewhere else, rebuild the Makefile with perl Makefile.PL INST_LIB=/some/where/else After this you can attempt the make install and the scanf.pm should end up in /some/where/else. -- ++jhi; // jhi@iki.fi, http://www.iki.fi/~jhi/