perl -e 'print" " x15 ."rl Hacker,\x0d"." "x5 ."Another Pe\x0dJust\n"' This stems from an annoying file I had to parse this morning, with an 0d at the end of every line. I couldn't figure out what the hell was wrong with the output. What is 0d for, anyway? Joey ==== Want to unsubscribe from Fun With Perl? Well, if you insist... ==== Send email to <fwp-request@technofile.org> with message _body_ ==== unsubscribe