An amusing compromise. But Perl was happy to do that for me. It looks like I can set $[ to whatever. On Wednesday 05 March 2003 3:53 pm, David Alban wrote: > Thought you might enjoy a tagline I saw recently: > > Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was > rejected without, I thought, proper consideration. > -- Stan Kelly-Bootle > > :-)