I'm not wimping out at all. Sometimes, I feel something I've written in a column is spot-on advice for the question at hand. I didn't feel that was the case on this one... some of the code is reusable, while other parts of it are completely distracting. And the parts that were applicable weren't some of my better-written stuff. {grin}

So, I couldn't say "I have a column on that". I had to say "Some parts of this column are applicable, perhaps."

No wimp. Just truth.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker
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