Apologies on not having responded earlier, I probably missed the response. FWIW, useqq now produces expected results; usage without useqq continues to produce an empty string. Tried this with perl 5.8.8 w/ Data::Dumper 2.121_08 on both netbsd 4.0 and debian 4.0 systems. If one is to believe that Data::Dumper's intent is to produce a string that can be eval'd to produce a copy of the original object like it's manual page indicates, this appears to be a bug.Thread Next