On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 16:09 +0100, Aidan Samuel wrote: > > What's all this $/=\1 jazz? I've only seen \1 used in old regexes. \1 in this context gives you a reference to the scalar "1", if you set $/ to a reference to an integer then you are asking for fixed length rather than delimited "records". /J\ -- Established 1963