At 22:01 -0700 1999.08.26, gene.ray@excite.com wrote: >if ( ($fname=~/(\D\S)*/) && > ($lname=~/(\D\S)*/) ) { You are allowing it to match zero-length, so these regexes will _always_ match. -- 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 macperl-request@macperl.org