On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 03:00:07PM -0600, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote: > On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 12:33:09PM -0800, Larry Wall wrote: > > : 1_2_3_4______5___6 (absurd, but doable) > > > > Nope, _ is allowed only between digits (counting a-f as digits in hex). > > Ah, good. It has always mildly annoyed me in prior perls that 1__2 > was a literal 12.
In that case you should turn on warnings. Then you can be mildly annoyed both by the result and by the warning ;-) $ perl -Mwarnings=FATAL,syntax -e 'print 1__2' Misplaced _ in number at -e line 1. -- Paul Johnson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pjcj.net
