Ok, so the \w{3} bug I asked about was fixed, but what of print "abc" =~ /(\w)+/; # c Is that a bug? Was it fixed in 5.5.3? Or is that behavior documented somewhere that I've not seen? -- MIDN 4/C PINYAN, NROTCURPI, US Naval Reserve japhy@pobox.com http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ http://pinyaj.stu.rpi.edu/ PerlMonth - An Online Perl Magazine http://www.perlmonth.com/ The Perl Archive - Articles, Forums, etc. http://www.perlarchive.com/