According to Nicholas Clark: > 1: PERL_HASH value 0 > 2: length 24 > 3: a constant Thank you for the research. Plan A is dead. Long live Plan B. -- Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - <chip@pobox.com> "I wanted to play hopscotch with the impenetrable mystery of existence, but he stepped in a wormhole and had to go in early." // MST3K