Challenge: determine if $_ is an integral power of 2 (1,2,4,8,16,...) if (YOUR CODE HERE) { print "$_ is a power of 2" } I have it down to 7 characters. Can anyone beat that? -- MIDN 4/C PINYAN, NROTCURPI, US Naval Reserve japhy@pobox.com http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ http://pinyaj.stu.rpi.edu/ PerlMonth - An Online Perl Magazine http://www.perlmonth.com/ The Perl Archive - Articles, Forums, etc. http://www.perlarchive.com/ ==== Want to unsubscribe from Fun With Perl? Well, if you insist... ==== Send email to <fwp-request@technofile.org> with message _body_ ==== unsubscribe