thank you much,

As a question though, would there be a time when it would make sense to use split in scalar context (and thus avoid the @_?). Not as if i'm qualified to ask question's on perl's behavior, but if this is deprecated (as diagnostics says) is it going to be replaced by some other behavior?

jynx

UPDATE: please disregard this, i apparently wasn't fully reading the above post (but thanx again swiftone for pointing that out)