> Are you being difficult on purpose? Programming is about paying the bare minimum attention to the details. > [...] two methods of accomplishing the same th

> Are you being difficult on purpose? Programming is about paying the bare minimum attention to the details. > [...] two methods of accomplishing the same thing [...] Absolutelly not. one prints: 72000000 hello 72000000 world the other hello 72000000 world 72000000 Now try both examples against a file with more than one column to understand what I'm talking about ;)