Conscious, if you don't see the point in this then that's fine, by all means ignore it. there are many other scripts on this site that are likely to interest you and that you can focus your efforts on instead. if your point was to suggest that i refrain from posting these sorts of snippets in the future, then i'm afraid i'm not persuaded :P

hah [Plornt], sorry, i did make it a bit cryptic! if it helps, here's the same line with proper syntax:

//echo $iif($eval( //echo $!iif($eval( $v1 , 0),$eval($v1, 2)) , 0),$eval($v1, 2))