note blue_cowdawg <ul><ul><i> am I crazy or do printf() and sprintf() have no way to return, say, 0F instead of just F? </i></ul></ul> <p> I'm not a psychiatrist and never played one on TV so I can't judge if you're crazy or not. But check out this sniglet of code. <code> $ perl -e 'printf "%0.4x\n",128;' 0080 </code> </p> <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-72516"> <hr> <font size="-2"> Peter L. Berghold -- Unix Professional<br> Peter -at- Berghold -dot- Net; AOL IM redcowdawg Yahoo IM: blue_cowdawg<br> </font> </div></div> 1014126 1014126