I've got a little code snippet that is irritating me, because there's got to be a shorter way to do it, but I'm having a brain-block. I knew that the folks on FWP could help. Is there a way to do the following two lines in one line? : $string1 .= $append; $string2 .= $append; $string1 and $string2 are different strings, of course, which just happen to be being appended with the same data right now. Rich -- It seems to me as we make our own few circles 'round the sun We get it backwards and our seven years go by like one --Rush, 'Dog Years' (Test for Echo, 1996) ==== Want to unsubscribe from Fun With Perl? Well, if you insist... ==== Send email to <fwp-request@technofile.org> with message _body_ ==== unsubscribe