In article <9418:Oct503:06:2790 at kramden.acf.nyu.edu> brnstnd at kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes: >More to the point, an alert reader will notice that you haven't >accounted for the NULL. ^^^^ Argh. Dan, I'm shocked. That's NUL. NULL is a pointer. NUL is a character.