>>>>> "VB" == Vicki Brown <vlb@cfcl.com> writes: VB> foreach (split //, $line) { VB> $num = ord $_; VB> $num > 127 and warn "ASCII value exceeds 127.\n"; VB> } VB> What I found most interesting when looking at the suggested replacement was VB> not just the change in the loop. One could as readily have written Ohh, lets play... warn "ASCII value exceeds 127.\n" if ($_=$line) =~ tr/\0-\x7f//c <chaim> -- Chaim Frenkel Nonlinear Knowledge, Inc. chaimf@pobox.com +1-718-236-0183 ==== Want to unsubscribe from Fun With Perl? ==== Well, if you insist... Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to ==== fwp-request@technofile.org