never made use of it: it looks sloppy, makes the code less readable for humans, and is liable to lead to errors (because it doesn't work in all contexts). The occasional 1-byte gain didn't seem worth it.If you'd saved all those bytes over the years, you'd be a wealthy man now. Why, I counted 3652 in Xywwweb.U2 alone! (Counting via ci /">/">/) Harry Binswanger hb@xxxxxxxx