Buddha Buck wrote:
> 
> But it isn't "here" that's the problem.  If we just wanted to change 
> the value "here", we could use my().  The problem is that local() 
> changes the value for somewhere else as well as here.  

Well, as has been pointed out, special^Wlocalized variables are
scoped in time, not space, so:

        now $/ = "\n";


-- 
John Porter

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