Aristotle,

Thanks for the '-1' pointer. I wasn't aware of it.

I still have to check my coriginal code because with it I am splitting with a large limit value but am still having the issue of misrepresented array size for arrays generated by split. I will look into my code this AM and report back to the monks to clarify what I find to be the source (programmer -me- error or odd behaviour).

Clearly probabilities lean towards the former.

hackmare.