note Anonymous Monk So we're in agreement, the documentation for reverse needs to be updated to clarify what it does, right? <dl><dt>[http://search.cpan.org/~rjbs/perl-5.12.3/pod/perlunicode.pod|perlunicode]</dt> <dd>And finally, scalar reverse() reverses by character rather than by byte.</dd> <dt>[http://search.cpan.org/~rjbs/perl-5.12.3/pod/perlfunc.pod#reverse|perldoc -f reverse]</dt> <dd>In scalar context, concatenates the elements of LIST and returns a string value with all characters in the opposite order.</dd> </dl> 661510 885296 -2