Hi

Can you post a full code snippet with __DATA__ tags that show this effect? My test on 5.6.1 doesn't show the behavior that you're seeing.

foreach my $outdata ( <DATA> )
{
 print "Init: $outdata\n";
 $outdata =~ s{<cfmail}{<!--- <cfmail}g;
 $outdata =~ s{</cfmail>}{</cfmail> --->}g;
 print "Final: $outdata\n\n";
}


__DATA__
<cfmail to="#to_address#">
</cfmail>
[download]

The results were

Init: <cfmail to="#to_address#">

Final: <!--- <cfmail to="#to_address#">


Init: </cfmail>

Final: </cfmail> --->
[download]

So it's hard to see where the your issue is coming from. My only assumption is that your regex code is in a loop that runs the 25 times that the comment characters get repeated.

- j

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