On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 11:14:00PM -0500, Keith C. Ivey wrote: > But I was glad to see in the results several versions (by me > and others) of the lovely > -ln 1&($.|y|o|||y|e|||y|u|||y|a|||y|i|||y|y|||y|||c)||print
Indeed, I thought that was very beautiful when I discovered it. Although all my solutions were based on using eval and substitutions to recreate a string looking much like that. It just didn't occur to me to use the $_ x=... trick, by which I'm still stunned. MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://colondot.net/