Some time ago I was surprised by this. See if you can guess what it prints *before* you try it out. print "\L\uHELLO, WORLD\E.\n"; If you're not surprised, you're either missing something important or you're a toke.c expert. (Or you've seen it before.) Mark-Jason Dominus mjd@plover.com ==== 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