Hello Serge, Thursday, May 8, 2003, 8:13:13 PM, you wrote: SG> Yes, and I READ THAT too... * laugh out loud * Btw, the 1024-char SG> limit I put on xlevdist() is rather arbitrary. I could take it SG> away but users might kill me if I cause their computer to crash! =) hm how about passing an argument which unlocks string computation with more than 1024 chars and let them crash their computers themselves? -- Best regards, frank mailto:asseg@ukl.uni-freiburg.de