> Which works great. I'm still stuck on how to do Zak's method of > manipulating the string, but starting to feel better about 'while' now. > > Thanks, > Matt Here's some code, missing stuff: s = raw_input('>') while s: # when will the while loop be done? print s[??] # ?? is some value s = ?? # you want to change s --- Zak Arntson www.harlekin-maus.com - Games - Lots of 'em