>>Yeppers. I thought I could help him out by participating. I pride myself in
>>being able to write high performance code. Took one look at the "challenge",
>>turned around and took the off-ramp from the Off-Ramp.< bg >
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>What about the string-only version of the challenge? Think you can improve on Nancy's and my code?

Oh, give me a loaded question, why don't you? Knowing both of you, I doubt it, but I'll download the stuff and see what I can do. Of course, since I'll be on vacation all next week, it'll be at least two weeks until I can really "sink my teeth into it", and given that I'm called "Senile Man" by my wife, I might forget.:-)