From: r Date: 2007-01-01T17:35:24+09:00 Subject: Re: Newbie: It works, how can I make it better? rwtnorton@charter.net wrote: > Corrections / advice / criticisms are welcome. > (I think that I prefer the original version.) Me too. I like your heredoc usage, but overall it's too much gold plating, looks like java to me. I would feel the pain of the next guy to maintain this. All the meat would have to be recompressed into one paragraph. -R