Hmm Im in the process of writing an sub that will do the same thing as length($a)=20. :-) Unfortunatly the B classes dont provide a way to get/set the full set of attributes for a PV.

And personally I think that length($a)=$x should work both ways, truncating and extending (preferable with extending with "\0"'s )

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_{<Elian> And I do take a kind of perverse pleasure in having an OO assembly language...}