Steven Majewski writes: > How does Perl handle it if the tokens aren't whitespace separated? > Is there an optional enclosing bracket as in shell syntax ? Yes. > How do you do: "%(word)sly yours" % vocabulary ? I've not a clue... manually scan the format string, perhaps? -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at acm.org> PythonLabs at Zope Corporation