instead of some verbose stuff that requires reading twice to understand what you mean. After all, I'm a Perl programmer, not a Java programmer, nor Homer. I don't give a rats ass about XP or node reputation (otherwise, I wouldn't have written a single word in this thread). However, many people do. The harder you make it for people to post corrections, (by either punishing them, or requiring them to write long proza), the fewer you will get.