Oops, didn't realize that I'd left this in: >print @words . " eligible words found: ", > join (' ', @words[0..4]), "...\n"; Of course an FWPer would write that as > print @words . " eligible words found: @words[0..4]...\n"; I had an earlier version where @words was a LOL and hadn't looked closely enough at that line when I simplified it. -- Peter Scott Pacific Systems Design Technologies ==== Want to unsubscribe from Fun With Perl? Well, if you insist... ==== Send email to <fwp-request@technofile.org> with message _body_ ==== unsubscribe