note KM Also, check out the Perl version of morse in the PPT <a href="http://language.perl.com/ppt/src/morse/morse.dragons">here</a>, and demorse <a href="http://language.perl.com/ppt/src/morse/demorse.abigail">here</a>. It would be interesting to see a benchmark of the two ways of converting (above uses s///, and morse uses a map of a hash.) <P> Cheers,<BR> KM 39106 39106