At 10.07 -0400 1998.07.28, William B. Birkett wrote: >The reason I am using $line is that I have another file opened and don't >want to alter the $_ variable. This construct is in the MacPerl P&E book, >so I assume it is commonly used. This was supposedly "fixed" in perl5.005, and Paul confirms that it seems to have been. Please tell me the page # and I can think about adding it to the errata. -- Chris Nandor mailto:pudge@pobox.com http://pudge.net/ %PGPKey = ('B76E72AD', [1024, '0824090B CE73CA10 1FF77F13 8180B6B6']) ***** Want to unsubscribe from this list? ***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch