1999-06-30-20:47:00 Vicki Brown: > # Problem - pad out a string >[ with NULL bytes, to a length that's a multiple of 4 bytes ] I'd probably start with something like: $str .= "\0" x (4 - (length($str) % 4)) if length(str) % 4; then add or subtract one until I got the desired behavior:-). -Bennett ==== Want to unsubscribe from Fun With Perl? ==== Well, if you insist... Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to ==== fwp-request@technofile.org