I would do that on a system without warnings; however, it's always a good thing to be explicit about such things. use warnings 'uninitialized' makes my intent--ducking the 'Use of uninitialized value in multiplication' warnings--more clear than sticking a bunch of default values in. Besides, it's easier to type than "shift-backslash-backslash-unshift-zero" x 3. :^)

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--Brent Dax
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