[snip] Looks like it wouldn't be terribly difficult to get something like this up and running. I was just taking a look at: http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.stream-wrapper-register.php I'm kinda surprised no one has written a wrapper for strings yet... [/snip] Perhaps because there is such a wealth of string handling functions now that not anyone has seen a need to do so. That is why I suggested that you might be interested in writing an extension if you see it being a valuable tool to have in your arsenal. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php