It seems that if the last item in a string is empty, then trying to access it by using "item -1" returns the penultimate item, not the last one. For example, given the string "a,b," item -1 of that string comes back as "b". This is on LC 4.6.2, OS X 10.6.8. Is this expected behavior? Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com>