and somehow your solution is not working. It writes though, but the vars (needed for further editing) are named %nick.address etc. So not the unique one's i need like %eric.address or %myla.address
oh ok, the nick ($2) being kept as a var wasn't obvious from what i saw, even though you had shown each var having the value of - (which I took to be a substitute for what you are really setting it to)
