> > I'd go for tr/|/\0/ instead. > > the transformed value ... could not appear in the data. > > Is that so? How do you know? Look, this isn't "rag on co-contributors" day. (That takes place every year on Feb 30). The given problem was a text file of names, and it's probably a reasonable assumption that there are no nulls in the text file, and even if that's NOT a reasonable assumption, I think the original poster is smart enough to say "Hmm, that's not true." xoxo, Andy -- Andy Lester: andy@petdance.com http://petdance.com/ "It takes a teenage riot to get me out of bed today." ==== Want to unsubscribe from this list? (Don't you love us anymore?) ==== Well, if you insist... Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to ==== fwp-request@technofile.org