Hello, I want to get object name of a list inside lapply > c<-list(a=seq(1:5),b=seq(10:20)) > lapply(c,names) $a NULL $b NULL Why NULL ? but i am expecting the names of object . Any help will be appreciated . I want to grab the names of object inside lapply for further process. Thanks . Tanvir Ahamed Göteborg, Sweden | mashranga at yahoo.com