note reptile <P>That reminds me: check out Damian Conway's <a href="http://tmtowtdi.valueclick.com/rfc/21.pod">proposal</a> to replace <tt>wantarray</tt> with a generic <tt>want</tt> function to test against every possible context you could imagine. I hope this isn't too offtopic :p <P><CODE>local $_ = "0A72656B636148206C72655020726568746F6E41207473754A"; while(s/..$//) { print chr(hex($&)) }</CODE></P> 26319 26319