> First, the first argument to split is *always* a regex. A lot of people > are in the habit of passing a quoted string, but according to the > perl5-porters (in a thread about a year or so ago) the first argument > should always be a regex. So, use the // or m// syntax. > > Doing that should make it obvious what the problem is: > > my @IPs = split(/./, $ARGV[4]); > ^ > dot is a meta character in a regex, so it needs to be quoted:
You learn something new everyday. Thank you - works perfectly... :) -- me -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
