Greet the sun all, Just as an FYI, for those who miss the preprocessors found in C/C++ when working in Java (you know who you are), follow this link: http://www-4.ibm.com/software/developer/library/cprep/index.html -- Perry Hoekstra Talent Software Services dutchman@mn.uswest.net A person who smiles in the face of adversity... probably has a scapegoat