On Jul 7, Vicki Brown sprach thusly: > $myEmail = 'me%40my.email.com'; > $myEmail = ~ s/%40/@/g; > print "$myEmail"; > > >All I get back is 4294967295. s/= ~/=~/ should do the trick... since 4294967295 is 2**32-1, must be the complement of 0 (to which s/%40/@/g evaluates in scalar context assuming index($_,'%40') == -1). - Austin ==== Want to unsubscribe from Fun With Perl? Well, if you insist... ==== Send email to <fwp-request@technofile.org> with message _body_ ==== unsubscribe