paul jakma wrote on tue NUMBER aug NUMBER david neary wrote actually the following would be in some way sensible echo e echo enc sed s NUMBER NUMBERa fa f NUMBER NUMBER x NUMBER g why NUMBER NUMBER why not NUMBER the above was something along the lines i was attempting once i realised it was a straight swap but i couldnt get awk s gensub to insert the x for s and s perl s pack would do the job ps the late reply is because the footer on the original mail if you received this mail in error yadda yadda got caught in my spam filter and ended up in my junkmail directory might not have been the footer check my headers actually it was worse a bodycheck showed up a remove url i need a new spam filter but i want to be able to process false positives rather than dump them cheers dave david neary marseille france e mail bolsh URL irish linux users group ilug URL URL for un subscription information list maintainer listmaster URL 