perlmeditation merlyn Take heed the quote from the Book of the Camel: <blockquote> "You will be miserable until you learn the difference between scalar and list context." </blockquote> lest you end up like <a href="http://www.stonehenge.com/cgi/go/http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/03/13/208259">the high school kid who now has a criminal record for a simple mistake</a>. <p>-- <a href="http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/">Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker</a></p> <hr> <b>update:</b> Please keep in mind that I'm particularly sensitive to this subject because of <a href="http://www.stonehenge.com/cgi/go/http://www.lightlink.com/fors/">my own ongoing legal case where I became a felon over a misunderstanding</a>.