Sure, that's a whole venerable class of JAPHs. Here's one (can't claim to be the fist to do it). $, = ' '; $\ = ','; eval { &{'Just::&Another::&Perl::&Hacker'} }; print $@ =~ /&(\w+)/g; -- John Porter ==== Want to unsubscribe from Fun With Perl? Well, if you insist... ==== Send email to <fwp-request@technofile.org> with message _body_ ==== unsubscribe