Lee Harr wrote: > perl makes this simple: > > $s = "aabc"; > $s++; > print "$s\n"; > $s = "zzzz"; > $s++; > print "$s\n"; > > would print: > aabd > aaaaa Ugh! Who ever though up such an obtuse scheme? Thanks for reminding me why I dislike Perl. Robert Amesz