Thank you for your attention, Bob. > What is your actual regex? At a minimum, you'll need /g modifier. You may > need /m and/or /s as well.
May be I didn't explained my prob exactly. I don't have a problem with the regex (and yes, I have the /m /g and /s). Related to the regex, my script works fine - and I get the result I want. I already print the $1 to STDOUT, where it get's redirected to sort and then to a file. My idea was to duplicate the $1 value to another file (write one value to STDOUT and to a file) and I could not solve it. It has nothing to do with the $1, as I tried to write a fixed text and the file didn't gets created. Any idea? Kind regards Reinhard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>