Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!ukma!wuarchive!csus.edu!ucdavis!sunny!poage From: poage@sunny.ucdavis.edu (Tom Poage) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl Subject: Re: Frequently Asked Questions about Perl - with Answers [Monthly posting] Message-ID: <590@sunny.ucdavis.edu> Date: 11 Mar 91 21:51:27 GMT References: <1991Mar08.025232.21050@convex.com> <1991Mar08.131601.23812@convex.com> Reply-To: poage@sunny.ucdavis.edu (Tom Poage) Organization: UCDMC Clinical Engineering, Sacto., CA Lines: 12 In article <1991Mar08.131601.23812@convex.com> Tom Christiansen writes: ... >Nine. To accept more, Larry would have to change the code that >recognizes \1 .. \9 and $1 .. .$9. > >--tom How about \{nn} and ${nn} as an option? -- Tom Poage, Clinical Engineering University of California, Davis, Medical Center, Sacramento, CA poage@sunny.ucdavis.edu {...,ucbvax,uunet}!ucdavis!sunny!poage