ok I was wrong. Its Friday so I am half alert :) the 17094. is actually
the tail end of this error.

Modification of a read-only value attempted at armonth.pl line 30,
<AGING> line 17904.

Are you able to make an assignment like this?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Kraus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
> Sent: Friday, December 27, 2002 3:19 PM
> To: Perl
> Subject: Why do these two statements generate different output?
> 
> 
> $1 from reg expr is equal to 2300,150.17
> 
> $org = $1;
> $org=~s/,//g;
> Generates 2300150.17. Which is correct.
> 
> $org = $1 =~ s/,//g;
> Generates 17904.
> 
> Now if I am correct the binding =~ has precedence over =. So 
> it should generate the same output.
> 
> Paul Kraus
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