John W. Krahn wrote: > > No need to create and then dereference an anonymous array, you can get > list context for the count like this: > > my $count = () = /\b$soundex\b/g;
Thanks John: I've never seen that before. By rights I would have thought it should assign either zero (as the number of elements in an empty list) or undef (as the last element of an empty list) to $count. Do you know where this is documented? Rob -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]