This is definately cleaner than my approach, thus why I asked the question (and why I will use it). But I ran some benchmarks on just this section of code (derived from a 260K file) and it's not any faster. This test case is much larger than most of what I would be passing through it so it's not terribly significant, but I thought your approach would be more efficient. Kind of interesting at least to me. Thanks for your assistance.

Original:
Time: 27 wallclock secs (25.88 usr + 0.00 sys = 25.88 CPU)
Time: 26 wallclock secs (25.75 usr + 0.00 sys = 25.75 CPU)
Time: 27 wallclock secs (25.73 usr + 0.00 sys = 25.73 CPU)
Time: 27 wallclock secs (25.88 usr + 0.00 sys = 25.88 CPU)
Time: 26 wallclock secs (25.75 usr + 0.00 sys = 25.75 CPU)

New:
Time: 26 wallclock secs (25.97 usr + 0.00 sys = 25.97 CPU)
Time: 26 wallclock secs (26.13 usr + 0.00 sys = 26.13 CPU)
Time: 26 wallclock secs (26.39 usr + 0.00 sys = 26.39 CPU)
Time: 27 wallclock secs (26.30 usr + 0.00 sys = 26.30 CPU)
Time: 27 wallclock secs (26.31 usr + 0.00 sys = 26.31 CPU)

-THRAK
www.polarlava.com

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