Ok, you might have a point there. *blush*

But there is one reason I didn't show just this. If the same transliteration needs to be applied over and over (such as applied to every element of an array) this could be dreadfully slow. And the idea of an anonymous subroutine is common enough that he might as well learn about em now than later.

:-)

--- demerphq
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