Thanks ysth, much obliged.

Just to clarify here, what were fixes and what were style issues? For instance these changes to me seem to be putely stylistic.

--- justcode.orig    2004-11-04 03:26:21.186067200 -0800
+++ justcode    2004-11-04 03:26:55.825876800 -0800
@@ -71,8 +71,7 @@
       unless ($depth) {
         # version 00: original format
         # version 01: keys are escaped, not just values, handles nest
+ed refs.
-        $vars_str =~ s/^(==\d\d)://;
-        unless (defined $1) {
+        unless ($vars_str =~ s/^(==\d\d)://) {
           # No format/format version "00"
           my %vars = map split(/=/, $_, 2), split /&/, $vars_str;
           unescape( values %vars );
@@ -84,9 +83,9 @@
         }
       }
 
-      my $vars;
-      $vars_str =~ s/^([AHUV])(.)?//;
-      my ($type,$split)=($1,$2);
+      my $vars;     
+      my ($type,$split);
+      ($type,$split) = ($1,$2) if $vars_str =~ s/^([AHUV])(.)?//;
 
       unless (defined $type) {
           printLog("Undefined type in unpackVars()");
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The before and after there seem to me to be functionally identical. Am I right?

update:Nope, failed matches dont reset the regex vars.