there is a silly but mostly harmless buffer overrun while reading array p, sorry. Below is a patch. Regards, Hartmut --- utils.c.orig 2006-01-21 02:56:17.000000000 +0100 +++ utils.c 2006-05-01 20:48:35.000000000 +0200 @@ -1237,7 +1262,7 @@ { enum { NONUM, DOTNONUM, INT, DOT, LEADDOT, FRAC } s = NONUM, t = NONUM; char *p, *q, *r; - for (p = q = r = a; *q != '\0';) { + for (p = q = r = a; *p != '\0';) { switch (s) { case NONUM: if (*p >= '0' && *p <= '9') @@ -1296,5 +1321,6 @@ *q++ = *p++; t = s; } + *q = '\0'; return a; }