this tends to shut down J904 (and, on windows, without a stacktrace nor error messsage):
try=: {{ 0!:0 y }} trys=: {{ 'nchars ntries'=. 3 >. 2{.x s=. 0 for.i.ntries do. try. try y{~nchars?#y s=. s+1 catch. catcht. end. end. s%ntries }} 3 1e5 trys a. FYI, -- Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm