note TedYoung I cannot agree with this more. I learned most of the Perl I know today through Perl Golfing (both participating and decoding other answers). <!-- Node text goes above. Div tags should contain sig only --> <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-220329"> <p>Ted Young</p> <code>($$<<$$=>$$<=>$$<=$$>>$$) always returns 1. :-)</code> </div></div> 567774 567883