in reply to Re: Obscure expression!
in thread Obscure expression!

Thanks for your help. The reason it was so confusing was the '$&' and '&&' can/were pushed together ($&&&) and it worked the same way. Now we can use the following to print the matched line and the line after the matched line.
perl -ne '$&&&print($&,"\n",$_), /default|$/'
Thanks again for you quick and very helpful response. J