On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 09:03, Mike Whitaker <mike at altrion.org> wrote: > >> (this is not an answer) > > But this might be: > > echo 169 | perl -pe '/(\d+)(?{ $_ = sqrt($^N)."\n" })/;' Except it didn't follow the rules. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton <philip.newton at gmail.com>