I see. eval is the tricky one. Thank you. - - - On Tue, 01 Oct 2002 13:53:59 +0200, Detlef Lindenthal wrote:
>Just be a bit more generous and grant your script one more backslash: $a = 'ABCD'; $b = 'bcda'; $z = 'DCBA'; eval "\$z =~ tr/$a/$b/"; print $z, "\n"; # prints: adcb ## ... because eval "$z" is the constant 'DBCA' ## rather than the variable $z !!! Regards, Detlef
