> This lends itself to squeezing out 3 more characters, for 73: > > print+("dear perl5,","\nHappy birthday ","to you,","\b.")[1,2,1,2,1,0..3] Well, then here's another, compressing that 1,2,1,2 sequence: print+("dear perl5,","\nHappy birthday ","to you,","\b.")[(1,2)x2,1,0..3] xoxo, Andy -- Andy Lester: andy@petdance.com http://www.petdance.com/ <CF_BOOK_AUTHOR TITLE="Practical ColdFusion"> ==== Want to unsubscribe from Fun With Perl? Well, if you insist... ==== Send email to <fwp-request@technofile.org> with message _body_ ==== unsubscribe