Perfect; that's just what I want! I'd forgotten that "local" did that; I need to temporarily override the values so that for example a 1000-element array doesn't take one line each...

My Perl is a little rusty after being out of the workforce for a few years now, so I thought I'd brush up by writing a script that solves the "target" puzzle that's syndicated in some papers (and without any false modesty, it's *fast*).

Thanks.