No-one's mentioned the "travesty" program which (used to?) come with Perl. That solves this problem. And it's rather fun. Try feeding the book of Ecclesiastes into it (that's the "Vanity... all is vanity" one). Or, all the emails you've received from your boss. Ian ==== Want to unsubscribe from Fun With Perl? Well, if you insist... ==== Send email to <fwp-request@technofile.org> with message _body_ ==== unsubscribe