Um, I tried both code samples, and tilly's worked fine, but merlyn's produces no output.

It seems to be always hitting the 'else' clause. Changing the readline ($_) to <$_> fixes it.

Update: jlp reports that merlyns code works for him. I'm running 5_005.03, whereas he's running 5.6.0. I don't know if that would make any difference or not.

--Chris

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