On Oct 19, birgit kellner said: >> ($title = $header) =~ s/<br><br>/: /; > >I had thought of that, but believed that it will also perform the >substitution on $header. I just tested it, and that doesn't seem to be the >case. If that's true, there's the solution to my problem.
Doing ($x = $y) =~ s/foo/bar/ does the following: $x = $y; $x =~ s/foo/bar/; so $y is left untouched. -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ ** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 ** -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]