Vicki wrote: > > $myEmail = 'me%40my.email.com'; > $myEmail = ~ s/%40/@/g; > print "$myEmail"; > > > All I get back is 4294967295. It works fine for me -- as long as I remove the space in the middle of the =~ . If I don't, I get a fatal error about modification of a read-only variable; so I'm guessing the user has a much older version of perl. (Mine is 5_57.) John Porter ==== Want to unsubscribe from Fun With Perl? Well, if you insist... ==== Send email to <fwp-request@technofile.org> with message _body_ ==== unsubscribe