Mike,
thanks, I think.
How odd. I had no idea this happened. That'll teach me. Still, I've never had a computer science lesson in my life, so how am I expected to know these things!?! :)
Cheers,
Jasper
Hehe, to tell you the truth, I DO have a CS background, and I never would have known this happened in perl if I hadn't run into the string extension problem using the preserve_case routine from perlfaq6.
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Mike