> The code is fine (works flawlessly in perl 4 on a Sun), but I agree > that it exhibits the problem you describe under MacPerl 5.05r1m. > Actually, it looks like it works correctly the first time, but if you > run it again without restarting MacPerl, then only the prompt string > is printed, no matter what you type in response. > > Tom YES! I saw this same behavior last night! I thought it was me! I know it doesn't have anything to do with the <STDIN> because I wan't using that. :) My code was more like: $astring = "hello"; $astring =~ /^h/; print $astring; It worked once, then wouldn't print anything until I quit and restarted MacPerl. :( -jon Jon S. Stevens yanni@clearink.com ClearInk WebMagus http://www.clearink.com/ finger pgp@sparc.clearink.com for pgp pub key What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so. - Yogi Berra