At 15.22 +0100 99-01-27, Troy_Davis wrote: >=~ is an operator. I'm not sure what = ~ does... Anyone want to comment >on where 4294967295 comes from? = is the plain vanilla assignment operator. ~ is the bitwise negation operator. So = ~ assigns the bitwise negation of something. /Cajo. ___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