Hi, On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 08:06:31PM -0500, Joey Parrish wrote: > Why can't it? because at least for the OPT_ARG_STR type it does not use a seperate buffer, meaning it can not do any changes to the original string, it can only return a pointer to the start and a length. Greetings, Reimar Döffinger