Hey, that's sweet! If you want to get rid of another regex and make it even faster:

    if ( $where == 1 or substr($where, -2) eq 'E0' ) {

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Though I am wondering one thing: why is 'E0' appended to the return value of the final sequence number? Is it just an easy test for the end or is there something significant here that I'm not aware of? (i.e., why not just append an 'x' or 'mssux' or something like that?).

Cheers,
Ovid

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In reply to (Ovid) (3): Substitute Question by Ovid
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