note gmax Come to think of it, the key to paradise should <B>use strict</B> and <B>-w</B> ;-) <CODE> #/usr/bin/perl -w use strict;my%p= ("\40"=>chr(ord("\40" )*3-1).chr(ord("\40")+ord("\40")/4+7));$p{$p{"\40"}}="\40";print @{[map{my$o= $p{"\40"};@{[map{(($o=$p{$o})x$_)}map{ord($_)-(ord( "\40")*3 )-1}split//]},"\n"}split/n/,"uaqbnfdgcebcccbnebe" ."bcecc" ."gbndbeb" ."cbibi" ."bncdg" ."dcbib" ."nbbna" ."bnaaua" ."ubndd" ."ccgce" ."debcb" ."ncbeb" ."ebcbeb" ."cbebc" ."cnbbeb" ."ebcbebcbebcbcbnab" ."ebebecebebcbeb" ."na"]};# amen </CODE> <pre> _ _ _ _ (_|| | |(_|>< _| </pre> 133561 133561