note Anonymous Monk <em>Is there anything shorter than <tt>join'',</tt>?</em> <p> It depends. This: <code> $"="";"@_" </code> is one character more than <code> join"",@_ </code> but if you have to do two joins, <code> $"="";"@a";"@b" </code> is shorter than <code> join"","@a";join"","@b" </code> 77230 156322 1