Hello monks!!

do you believe in ghosts? i have the following code: 
@ident=`whois ibm.com|grep ID`;
my ($id) = grep(/ID/,@ident);

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i have 2 identical Linux boxes.

if i execute this lines in box number 1 $id contains, as expected, the line containing the ID...

BUT if i execute this lines in box number 2 $id contains number 1, that corresponds to a grep in scalar context!!

in both servers the result of: `whois ibm.com|grep ID` is identical!

Why grep behaves as scalar context when it should behave as list conext? Thanks in advance! Pedrete

In reply to grep in list context behaves as scalar context by pedrete

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