note Anonymous Monk <p>This problem with the way /g works is fixed with the 1 while hack <code> [james@adajio ~]$ cat test.pl #!/usr/bin/perl my $text = "No \x08\x08\x08 good"; 1 while $text =~ s/.\x08//; print "$text\n"; [james@adajio ~]$ ./test.pl good [james@adajio ~]$ </code> 684459 684507 20