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


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