Keith Calvert Ivey wrote: > > false positives for things like 10000.1.2.3.4, since '1111' == > '01111'). Drat, just after I sent this: 1010101==join 0,map$_<256,/\G(\d+)(?:\.|\z)/g; Oh well, add one more stroke: 1010101eq join 0,map$_<256,/\G(\d+)(?:\.|\z)/g; -- Rick Delaney rick.delaney@home.com ==== Want to unsubscribe from Fun With Perl? Well, if you insist... ==== Send email to <fwp-request@technofile.org> with message _body_ ==== unsubscribe