At 11:38 -0500 3.3.98, Chris Nandor wrote: > Hm. That works, it really does. I think you are mistaken. Actually, I discovered a bug at my end that explains the problem: I forgot to chomp the line (which had Mac linebreaks) first, which resulted in DOS linebreaks being output in this particular pathological case. > No, $\ is undefined unless you give it a value. This is what I needed to know. Thanks to all who responded. Stephan ***** Want to unsubscribe from this list? ***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch