note moritz <p>Right, I forget about Perl 5's insane behavior about capture variables when a match failed. The correct way would be to use <c>/.../ and $1 // ''</c> or some variation thereof.</p> <!-- Node text goes above. Div tags should contain sig only --> <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-616540"> [http://perl6.org/|Perl 6 - the future is here, just unevenly distributed] </div></div> 1004756 1004784