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in reply to Re^2: Morphological Japh
in thread Morphological Japh

it just needed some brackets
Actually, they're parentheses ;-)

well quite *cough* pedant *cough* :)
And of course in true perl fashion TAMWTDI - there are other ways of fixing it, including adding a whitespace between - and y///.
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