Hi Paul

 PW> Uh huh...  I've decided to stay with passing the maximum length to the
 PW> function.  Thanks :)

One thing still eludes me: why does your function want to know the
max length, rather than the actual length? The only reason I can
think of is that your function could change the string, making it
longer, and needs to know when to stop. Is this the case?

Cheers

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