Philip Kendall writes: > $field="disk whi"; > study $field; > print "Studied!\n"; > print "Found ",++$i, " matches\n" while($field=~/disk/g); > > it gets stuck in an infinite loop, whereas if I comment out the > study $field line, it works fine and just returns one match. > Summary of my perl5 (5.0 patchlevel 5 subversion 2) configuration: I do not see this with 5.005_03. IlyaThread Previous