> > Also, do I really save any CPU time with the <<'' rather than <<"" in > > the first part of this last example? > IIRC, I read somewhere that at "compilation" time qq strings that don't need interpolation are compiled to an equivalent token type to q (') strings. If that's the case, then you won't have any runtime penalty, and the startup penalty is not going to be noticeable, since parsing an empty string is hardly challenging :) -- Mike, who hopes MS Outlook hasn't messed up this message too badly... :( ==== 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