BOCQUET Jean-Francois wrote: > > hello, > just to notice that your problem is solved in perl with clean code : LOL!! Good one. :-) > sub display { > my ($prefix, $first, $last) = @_; > return "$prefix$first" if $last eq $first; > return "$prefix$first-$last"; > } [snip rest of line noise] -bigoted-ly y'rs, Peter