Hello folks! I'm reading Jos Boumans "Perl Beginners Tutorial To Regular Expressions". I'm stuck with a problem. Jos writes: Also realise that $1 and friends store the contents of the last succesfull match... I wanted to check that and wrote this code: -------------------------------- #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; my($string) = "This is a test!"; my($ergebnis); $string =~ m/(\s\w+\s)/g; $ergebnis = $1; print("$ergebnis\n"); -------------------------------- Shouldn't a be printed? I'm runnig perl, v5.6.0 built for i586-linux. I wouldn't bother normally, but I'm trying to understand every bit of perl... al -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]