note Albannach You have the right idea, you just need a different operator - <code>print 'a', '!' x 5;</code> will do it. Though Perl doesn't care, I prefer not to use double quotes unless I expect interpolation to be taking place. <!-- Node text goes above. Div tags should contain sig only --> <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-33341"> <p>--<br> I'd like to be able to assign to an luser </div></div> 613222 613222