Harry Putnam wrote: > > Excuse my skull bone density... not sure I follow this. Not sure I > see how `chop' does anything to `\' > > [...] >
assume your program is named scan.pl, what happen is you call it: scan.pl '\' your script always assume user will be entering a valid reg to use. i am suggest that you should not trust the user on that. there is a good chance that your user will not supply a valid reg. in that case, your program will crash. you should trap that with the eval{} or with quote your reg before passing it to Perl david -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]