>>>>> "LW" == Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
LW> That seems like a lot of extra work. I'd prefer to see something like: LW> my stuff; LW> m{^\s*[ LW> "$stuff:=(.*?)" | LW> $stuff:=(\S+) LW> ]}; couldn't that be reduced to: m{^\s* $stuff := [ "(.*?)" | (\S+) ] }; the | will only return one of the grabbed chunks and the result of the [] group would be assigned to $stuff. uri -- Uri Guttman ------ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------- http://www.stemsystems.com ----- Stem and Perl Development, Systems Architecture, Design and Coding ---- Search or Offer Perl Jobs ---------------------------- http://jobs.perl.org