Okay, I'll try again, now that I'm logged in. Textarea's are far from vi or emacs. Basically, about C as Perl you _all_ have it wrong. I use (pointers) a lot in my Perl (by reference) unless you went to school when they misinterpreted value/reference. For another time. My original thought about 'until' as being somewhat like a properly wrapped C macro which would say do{...}while(0) is that C doesn't have 'until' and I've seen where it can and should be used. until else is a non-sequitor for the most part. Other C things are; sub func { my($hr_h, $ar_l, $this) = @_; # instead of all the shift, shift, shift # seems quite clear my @these; # I'll try to wantarray too. foreach my $i (keys(%$hr_h)) { if($i == $$ar_l$i && $hr_h->{$i} == $this) { .... push(@these, $ar_l->$i); } } wantarray? @these: \@these; } # not the best of examples but shows 2 ways to talk with # an array pointer and uses (for good) of wantarray as the # return value. If you have more questions, especially you 'chromatic', send them on over to here http://www.theworld.com/~morourke/ see also, http://www.theworld.com/~morourke/gibberish/ So C and Perl _are_ beautifully intertwined. Happy Thanksgiving to one and all The fact that its a textarea is bad enough, but come on folks, if code is involved, let's get a bit more indentation-centric. That's not a word, I'm sure. I wouldn't write any real code without tabs and some smarts. Can I help you 'monks'? Indenting is _not_ 'press the space bar'. Nonsense. Thanks. Michael morourke@theworld.com

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