On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Sean McAfee wrote: > perl -le '$= = "testing"; print $=; $= = \5; print $=' > > On my machine this prints: > > 0 > 135059684 Curiously, I get a different number. But no matter what I assign it I get that same number. So I dont think it is "converting" the number to a scalar per se. alex ==== Want to unsubscribe from Fun With Perl? Well, if you insist... ==== Send email to <fwp-request@technofile.org> with message _body_ ==== unsubscribe