Well, I got two correct answers (regarding pos()) that I wasn't expecting! The answer I had in mind was the using split() will not reset your $DIGIT variables, whereas use of another regex will. But again, I'm glad you guys found something that didn't occur to me. Both of these points are going into my book, by the way.

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Jeff[japhy]Pinyan: Perl, regex, and perl hacker.
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