Eli Evans writes: > print"J",@t[33,11,12,6,41,42,45,44,75,80,76,28,49,65,66,27,55,8,2,91],"k",@t > [70,59]; Those lists of numbers are crying out for an unpack "C*" on a binary string (you can use \ce for things like 6). Nat ==== Want to unsubscribe from Fun With Perl? Well, if you insist... ==== Send email to <fwp-request@technofile.org> with message _body_ ==== unsubscribe