On Tuesday 09 November 2004 05:10 pm, George Georgalis wrote: > echo galis.org | sed -e 's/(.)/"&#".ord($1).";"/g' s/sed -e(.*)g(.*)/perl -pe$1eg$2/g; :-P Or Python, like Bob said. I don't know either about ordinals in sed, although my knowledge is negligible. Google didn't turn up much.