On Mon, 13 May 2002 20:06:55 -0400 Rich West <Rich.West at divatv.com> wrote: > eg: > if (-s "./INPUTMSG" < 102400) { > rather than > if (-s "./INPUTMSG" < (1024*100)) { :-) Micro-optimization... Doesn't Perl precompute constant expressions? So if you use the multiplexor, the effect of this optimization is tiny... Regards, David.