And my bad, again. Strings do not have an append anyway. "Dan Perl" <danperl at rogers.com> wrote in message news:Iuadnd7p5_COWMTcRVn-qA at rogers.com... > Sorry, my bad. I didn't pay attention and I mistook the join( ) for an > append( ) while just copying and pasting. I've never used join( ) myself > so it didn't click in my mind. > > Dan >