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David Kaufman
Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 10:29 PM
To: perl-win32-users@listserv.ActiveState.com
Subject: Re: Easy One

<snip: Bill's email>

> my ($b, $c) = ($1, $2) if $a =~ /^(\D+)(\d+)/;


Don't do that!  $a and $b are special variables used by perl for sorting
(and even if they weren't it would be bad form to use variables whose
names have no bearing on their contents).



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