And that's cool code, but it's a lot more typing than just the static string!

What I tried to get at in the chatter box is that we have only one example to work from, and no rules or specification. We don't know if princepawn wants "any N by N matrix as a text string" or "reshape the numbers 1 through 9 in different orientations". There's nothing "programmatic" about a text string, even as a solitary example.

Most of the hard work of programming is just getting the specification right. The easy part is the coding!

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker