From: Graham Foster Date: 2004-09-24T03:19:32+09:00 Subject: Re: Newbie: Case statement thanks to everyone who replied. It is really interesting seeing the diversity of solutions for a simple probelm. I must look into the . compact and .collect methods as they look intriging. Some of the answers (Sorry Florian) were rather too advanced for me. (I really did mean Newbie). Thx Graham