On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Michael Maraist wrote: > Good idea, but you have it backwards.. If anything, there should be an > "explicit" keyword.. > Remember, we want > > % perl -p -e 's/foo/bar/g' file.txt Oh, I know. I threw it in because someone mentioned wanting to turn it off. (There may have been some confusion in the default settings. The implicit arg would be 'on' by default. To turn it off would require: no implict arg; Use could then turn it back on again.) Trust me, I've no desire of removing the features that won me over in the first place. -- Bryan C. Warnock (bwarnock@gtemail.net)