William M. Perry writes: In lisp you could use coerce, e.g. (coerce '("foo" "bar" "baz") 'array) => ["foo" "bar" "baz"] In XEmacs coerce appears to be a byte-compiled function and not a C function so I don't know if this will help. Craig -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Craig Lanning Principal Engineer Logicon, Inc. a Northrop Grumman company E-Mail: Lanning(a)scra.org 5300 International Blvd. Voice: 843-760-3246 North Charleston, SC 29418 FAX: 843-760-3780 USA