Hi, <----- Original Message ----- <From: "Dean Mah" <dmah at members.evolt.org> <See: < http://www.nacs.uci.edu/indiv/ehood/MIME/1521/05_Content-Transfer-Encoding.h tml#5.1 <The = sign indicates that the next two characters are hexadecimal and <represent the character being encoded. That solved the problem, thanks. I just run the script through MIME::QuotedPrint before parsing it now. Richard