All of these responses have been incredible and an excellent education in perl. My final question before I say that I have sucked all I can learn from this thread...

I toyed around with your coded to fully understand what was happening. I see that you're pulling the first element from the right using -1. However I see that it changes when I write it as:

my $rcs = (qw($Revision: 1.46 $))[-2]

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Since I set the [ ] value to -2, I still get the correct value that I am looking for, however with my syntax and using -1 I retrieve just the $. Why is that? Since I am used to creating my arrays in the format qw(a b c); I would have thought these additional parens would not have changed the result. But they do.

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