If you blew this one off because it looked like bad code, go check it out again. The key is the '%n'.

perldoc -f sprintf
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I'd have to give this the Most Obscure award.

--Chris

Update: Someone thought I was directing this to the author. Indeed not. You, the reader, should look at the code again. jlistf used a little known sprintf formatting technique to make this work. And it's just too cool to not file this tidbit away.

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