On Fri, Nov 05, 1999 at 10:21:54AM -0800, Gurusamy Sarathy wrote: > Known bug. See: > http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/1998-11/msg00648.html Interesting. I've never expected $1 et alia to be lexical and I've always treated them as equivalent to "volatile" as in C. Their values can change at any time, if you need to keep them around for any reason, store them somewhere. -Scott -- Jonathan Scott Duff duff@cbi.tamucc.edu