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Ah, sorry JamesDSM50328, I didn't see your post. ========================================== abjure hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia

If you liked that you might like to try making some fantastic contraptions ========================================== abjure hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia

Shurely, "if I were ..." ========================================== abjure hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia

http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/aluminium.htm ========================================== abjure hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia

input your filenames on standard input with ls | file_nos.awk where file_nos.awk is #! /usr/bin/awk -f { if (match($1, /[0123456789]+/)) { print substr($1, RSTART, RLENGTH) } } to get 1 2 15 ========================================== abjure...

There's no vitriol on my part CC. I always have a laugh when I read your postings. Cheers ========================================== abjure hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia

You are, of course, allowed to redefine English words in any way you wish. Heaven forfend that I should lay down the law or appeal to standards in this respect :-o ========================================== abjure hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia

She didn't mean a "gathering" of printers, ESquared. She meant the way apostrophes are used is a convention amongst printers. It is a practice that printers use. The word convention is used to mean that most, possibly all, printers have adopted this practice. But it is not a law; just a...

Yes, but just after she's been ranting on about taking up arms against those who misuse apostrophes (e.g to pluralize abbreviations, as in CD's) she writes about apostrophes as a printer's convention (i.e. as though there was only one printer and it was his convention). Hoist by her own petard...

Life of Brian Conjugate the verb "to go", come on! ROMANES EUNT DOMUS ========================================== abjure hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia

and, just to prove I'm paying attention oxymoron alert ========================================== abjure hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia

init though ========================================== abjure hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia

I prescribe the word "descriptivist" in any future references. descriptivists ========================================== abjure hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia

I spot one error in this clause :-0 ========================================== abjure hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia

Alright then, I'll aks he ... Witch three errors spottest thee? ========================================== Promulgate sesquipedalianism!