On Tue, 2 Sep 2003 22:59:33 +0900, Michael Campbell <michael_s_campbell / yahoo.com> wrote: ||| into an array of quoted strings: ["foo", "bar", "baz", ...] ||| ||| Perl does this by: @list = qw(foo bar baz ...); list = %W{foo bar baz} -- Dean saor, dean saor an spiorad. Is seinn d'orain beo. http://www.joeygibson.com http://www.joeygibson.com/blog/life/Wisdom.html