At 01.35 +0100 99-01-28, kevin dowd wrote: >$myEmail = 'dowd%40ndirect.co.uk'; >$myEmail = ~ s/%40/@/g; >print "$myEmail"; > >All I get back is 4294967295. You shouldn't have any whitespace between = and ~! $myEmail =~ s/%40/@/g; will work! ___Carl_Johan_Berglund_________________________ Adverb Information carl.johan.berglund@adverb.se http://www.adverb.se/ ***** Want to unsubscribe from this list? ***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch