At 09:36 AM 11/9/99 -0800, tallwine@carol.ixlabs.com wrote: >Wouldn't this be better? > >sub abs { > return 0 unless @_; > return ($_[0] >= 0)?$_[0]:-$_[0]; >} > >And it even runs faster too. Sounds like a disadvantage given the requirements :-) How about: sub values { my $i; grep $i++ %2, @_ } -- 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