note shmem <blockquote><i> How sort actually works internally doesn't really matter. What does matter is that being built-in to the language, it understands Perl's internals, is always available and about as fast as you are likely to achieve. </blockquote></i> <p>Nice. Now I've got it - the "..., does." was refering to the "doesn't matter" from the previous sentence. Anyways - it's way clearer now. <blockquote><i> That I haven't noticed this before, having now read and re-read this dozens of times, does not surprise me. That many other pairs of eyes have looked right past this, does. Welcome to my world. </blockquote></i> clap, clap, thank you - having stuttered as a child I just stumble over repeated words. And, good you showed me the "...,does." construct again ;-) <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-510280"> <p>--shmem <small><pre> _($_=" "x(1<<5)."?\n".q&middot;/)Oo. G&deg;\ / /\_&macr;/(q / ---------------------------- \__(m.====&middot;.(_("always off the crowd"))."&middot; ");sub _{s./.($e="'Itrs `mnsgdq Gdbj O`qkdq")=~y/"-y/#-z/;$e.e && print}</pre></small> </div></div> 598394 598737