do not laugh, but I "discovered" today function extract(); :D before I used: foreach ($array as $key => $value) { ${$key} = trim($value); } though, "trimming" $value is kind of important to me and I would like to know if extract "trims" too? thanks. -ll ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php