On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 11:01:24AM +0000, Jasper McCrea wrote: > > perl -pe'for$i(a..z){$_=""if!/$i/i}' > err.. I've been on holiday, but why not save 3 characters with: > perl -pe'for$i(a..z){/$i/i||die}' Cos then it won't print any more lines after the first one that doesn't match? Tony