RS>> And thats precisely what Awk is you dill, C with a revamp on how the
 RS>> input lines are processed. In fact thats about all it is, a very
 RS>> fancy way of processing the input lines in precisely the same way you
 RS>> were suggesting.

 PE>> If it was C, it would compile with an ISO C compiler.  There's a 100%
 PE>> ISO C conforming compiler available from IBM that works on MVS.

 RS> Now you are getting all pedantic, you know what I mean.

Actually I don't.  I presume you mean AWK is C-like in structure.  So are
Unix C-Shell's.  I have only programmed a small amount in either of these
languages. Actually you can add SALT to that as well.  Totally irrelevant
to what I am trying to achieve, which is get some standard names for some
common routines. In C.  BFN.

Paul

--- GoldED/2 2.42.G1114