On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 09:06:39PM -0500, Uri Guttman wrote: > i look at that and see local(@temp) in a if/else block before the > return. so *temp should be a glob of whatever temp is in scope before > the call to this sub. the body of the sub then is a no-op. how would > *temp refer to either local(@temp) since they are out of scope by then? Would you believe tachyons? -- Michael G Schwern schwern@pobox.com http://www.pobox.com/~schwern /(?:(?:(1)[.-]?)?\(?(\d{3})\)?[.-]?)?(\d{3})[.-]?(\d{4})(x\d+)?/i ==== Want to unsubscribe from Fun With Perl? Well, if you insist... ==== Send email to <fwp-request@technofile.org> with message _body_ ==== unsubscribe