perlmeditation K_M_McMahon I'm sure I can't be the only one that this happens to. How many people out there find themselves just doing normal things and all of a sudden, your mind translates something totally unrelated into code.<br><Br> <b>Example1:</b> I was at work the other day and somebody noted something on the white-board as <code>if finish = 0300</code> then blah blah blah. Of course my mind didn't like that, I was compelled to go to the board and correct it to properly read <code> if finish == 0300</code> blah blah blah. <br><br> <b>Example2:</b> Everything becomes a regular expression in your head to the point where you wish everything in life could allow the use of regular expressions.<br><br> <b>Example3:</b> Sometimes I will be writing an email to the non-technical people I work with and I'll realize I have started including <code>print</code> statements, or some other perl function in my email (like I see on here all the time <code>s/boss/idiot/g</code>).<br><br> I am sure there are many more examples. Let me hear some! <br><br> <!-- Node text goes above. Div tags should contain sig only --> <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-312400"> <br> <a href="http://www.billwfriend.com">-Kevin</a> <code> my $a='62696c6c77667269656e6440676d61696c2e636f6d'; while ($a=~m/(^.{2})/s) {print unpack('A',pack('H*',"$1"));$a=~s/^.{2}//s;} </code> </div></div>