Thank you, John and Uri. I got a hint to use -e "binmode ARGVOUT" and it did the trick for me!
JWK> BTW your substitution operator replaces only the first 'A' it finds JWK> with 'B'. If you want to replace all 'A's with 'B's then you have to JWK> use the /g option on the substitution: s/A/B/g. And it you are only JWK> really replacing one character with another then you should probably JWK> use transliteration instead: tr/A/B/. Thanks, but A and B were only placeholders here. Nevertheless, your remark for /g was very welcome ;-) Thomas -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
