[CJefferson]

Thank you, that tempts me to go and look at perl. At the moment I tend to use simple awk, or a full python script. I find python really doesn't lend itself to "one line", or even particularly short, programs however. I keep meaning to go back and look at perl. I was tempted to wait for Perl 6, but I think the time has come to just look at Perl 5 :)