perl -le '$~ = "L02"; { local $~ = "$~h"; print $~; }' up to and including perl-5.27.5, this would print "L02h" as of 5.27.6 this prints "h" this breaks production code :( -- H.Merijn Brand http://tux.nl Perl Monger http://amsterdam.pm.org/ using perl5.00307 .. 5.31 porting perl5 on HP-UX, AIX, and Linux https://useplaintext.email https://tux.nl http://www.test-smoke.org http://qa.perl.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/Thread Next