Fogle Cpl Shawn B wrote: > > How would I go about going to a previous line?
Save the previous line in a variable or use tell() and seek() to reposition the file pointer. > I would also like to do several regexp's against a scalar value...something > like this (hopefully you know a way for me to make this shorter!) > > $next_music_file =~ s/[.]/ /; > $next_music_file =~ s/^[0]//; > $next_music_file =~ s/.flac//; > $next_music_file =~ s/[_]/ /g; Can you describe what you want to do in english? The substitutions you show can't be made much shorter. John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]