Well, if that's what he actually recommends, I'll politely ignore his recommendation. Most of the time you don't need /s or /m. They're useless if you aren't working with multi-line strings. If you are working with multi-line strings, then you may very well want either the behavior you get with them or without them. In that case, you really should know exactly what you are trying to do and use them or not as is fitting, not because you read a book that said use them by default. IMHO, of course.

-sauoq
"My two cents aren't worth a dime.";

In reply to Re^3: $/ is playing havoc with my script. by sauoq
in thread $/ is playing havoc with my script. by blackadder

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