note tilly <I> Perl actually stands for Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister, but don't tell anyone I said that.<P> -- (BUGS section of "perldoc perl")</I><P> Here is my theory.<P> Perl is a list-oriented language. Widely known and (un)popular languages like VB, Pascal, C (and derivatives) generally are not. Therefore the list-oriented features of Perl tend to be downplayed by both authors and programmers, leading to much confusion.<P> Make sense? 26319 26322