Sorry, I don't think there's any way, short of writing a new object to do this. When I get argument concatenation to work, you'll be able to say "makefilename $1%s". Miller > > i'm stuck trying to join two symbols together eg. "23" + "phrase1" = > "23phrase1". > ... > >-- End of excerpt from Iain.Mott at cmis.CSIRO.AU