Jason Day wrote: > On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 10:25:18AM -0500, Geoffrey wrote: > >>No, character - character = numeric: >> >>intval = '5' - '2'; > > > I'm confused... this is exactly what Java does. No, the code you provided was: Character.getNumericValue('z')-Character.getNumericValue('a') What that does is get the numeric value and then subtract numeric from numeric. -- Until later, Geoffrey