John Porter <jdporter@min.net> writes: > do{$j=$_;formline('@>>',$_*$j)for 1..9;$^A.="\n";}for 1..9; > print $^A; Let's shrink it just a little (to be fair). do{$j=$_;formline('@>>',$_*$j)for 1..9;$^A.="\n"}for 1..9;print$^A That's still 66 characters -- way too many. This has only 50, and it even compiles under -w and use strict: for(1..9){$,=$_;printf"%3d",$_*$,for 1..9;print$/} -- Aaron Crane <aaron.crane@pobox.com> <URL:http://pobox.com/~aaronc/> ==== Want to unsubscribe from Fun With Perl? Well, if you insist... ==== Send email to <fwp-request@technofile.org> with message _body_ ==== unsubscribe