Darn it! I knew I should have posted my DON'T USE EVAL FOR THIS warning. As soon as this topic comes up, some fool (in this case delirium) comes along and tries to use eval.

Get it? Never use eval for this. {sigh}

And I wondered "Oh, maybe this time, we'll get through this without the security-hole inefficient broken eval-string solution" when I saw the first post. So, I didn't post my warning. Looks like I should have done it this time, and I'll have to do so next time. {sigh}

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