Aaron Crane wrote: > > do{$j=$_;formline('@>>',$_*$j)for 1..9;$^A.="\n"}for 1..9;print$^A > > I'm further guessing that John's familiarity with > this construction prevented him from noticing that do{block}for is actually > longer than the simple for{block}. That's right. Because originally I was using map: map {} 1..9 but then I noticed that Randal compliance could be achieved by a simple substitution: do {} for 1..9 And that's as far as I went with that. John Porter ==== Want to unsubscribe from Fun With Perl? Well, if you insist... ==== Send email to <fwp-request@technofile.org> with message _body_ ==== unsubscribe