Mike Schwab's point is well made. Some of these values are three-character ones, some of them are four-character ones, and five-character ones are obviously in the womb of time. A parse that deals swith this variability is, finally, trivial; but the issue should not be ignored.
John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN