Joey Mitchell Comeau wrote: > Here's mine. > > sub fifth($) {(split(/\W/,shift))[4]}; > > This one ok? That %%! won't )))"//ß find +++ the fifth word! (\W+ is probably better, IMO.) Cheers, Philip ==== Want to unsubscribe from Fun With Perl? Well, if you insist... ==== Send email to <fwp-request@technofile.org> with message _body_ ==== unsubscribe