Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!agate!hilbert!raymond From: raymond@hilbert.berkeley.edu (Raymond Chen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl Subject: Re: formats inside an eval Message-ID: <1990Mar23.043757.26371@agate.berkeley.edu> Date: 23 Mar 90 04:37:57 GMT References: <1990Mar21.073635.25523@agate.berkeley.edu> Sender: usenet@agate.berkeley.edu (USENET Administrator;;;;ZU44) Reply-To: raymond@hilbert.UUCP (Raymond Chen) Organization: U.C. Berkeley Lines: 17 In article J Greely writes: >Larry will probably explain this one in greater detail, but the short >version is that it just doesn't work. If the failure of formats to work inside an eval is intended behaviour, shall I take it that the man page is in error? After all, the phrase "format definition" is explicitly listed as one of the things that eval preserves. Can we get an official ruling from Larry on this? $_="krJhruaesrltre c a cnp,ohet";$_.=$1,print$2while s/(..)(.)//; (Any by the way, who is archiving all these one-liners anyways?) -- raymond@math.berkeley.edu Maintainer of the csip Frequently Asked Questions