why are you using 
s|[\r\n]|<br />|g;

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instead of 
s/[\r\n]/\<br \>/g;

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are the pipes somehow more efficient in this case or just more readable?

the other thing i'm wondering about is the square brackets... does that mean  /[asdf\.]/ would search for each of those characters (a, s , d, f and Period) versus the string 'asdf.'

i know they're silly questions but i'm trying to get back up to speed with reading perl ... after about 8 months in visual basic for applications

there were so many REALLY nice things about working in VBA ... for example the editor will automatically fill display a list of the sub objects and methods of the object that you're working with... but then again the number of times i've struggled with the long way around a hash table or an array makes me really glad to be back in PerlScript (with a bit of Win32::OLE)

anyways ... i'm rambling :)

In reply to Re: Re: Simple Question for you guys. by Buckaroo Buddha
in thread converting carriage returns to &lt;br&gt; tags (was: Simple Question for you guys) by Anonymous Monk

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