$ perl -we'$_="a","\n"' Useless use of a constant ( ) in void context at -e line 1. Wouldn't that be "clearer" if it would say $ perl -we'$_="a","\n"' Useless use of a constant ("\n") in void context at -e line 1. -- H.Merijn Brand http://tux.nl Perl Monger http://amsterdam.pm.org/ using perl5.00307 .. 5.14 porting perl5 on HP-UX, AIX, and openSUSE http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org/ http://qa.perl.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/Thread Next