Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!uunet!bfmny0!tneff From: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl Subject: Re: Novice surprise Message-ID: <22434656@bfmny0.BFM.COM> Date: 12 Feb 91 08:55:07 GMT References: <11393@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> <22434654@bfmny0.BFM.COM> <1991Feb12.165848.18718@convex.com> Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) Lines: 13 In article <1991Feb12.165848.18718@convex.com> tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) writes: >From the keyboard of tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff): >: grep(ARGV,s// >Hello? Don't you mean > > grep(s// >It's kind of a pity perl doesn't flag this as an error. Groooooaaannn! :-( --> :-) I'll tell you what's really sick -- mine worked too! Go figure.