note belg4mit You highlight the fact that restoration of a [Data::Dumper]d object will have intact methods, but do not indicate if this is so for the other modules. Is one to assume that by the omission (and latter use of the term "magic") that they are not, cannot be? <p> <tt> -- <br> perl -pew "s/\b;(&#091;mnst&#093;)/'$1/g"<br> </tt> 8070 8070