Howard.. that looks like what I did.. I did something else, too, and got the same result. I couldn't simplify it any further, though, so I'm working on something else.. One thought I had was that the number could be converted to base 2 instead of base 10. I'm not sure it would save any effort, though. Also, I was seeing if there was a way I could shorten the conversion from ascii to a number... haven't found one, yet. (I came close.. still playing with it.)

Brian