On 3/16/06, Levenglick Dov-RM07994 <Dov at freescale.com> wrote: > perl5.8.7 -e '$a="1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10";$a=~s/(\w+)\.(\w+)\.(\w+)\.(\w+)\.(\w+)\.(\w+)\.(\w+)\.(\w+)\.(\w+)\./\9/;print $a' > Produces: 910 > > Why? because you used \9 instead if $9 in the substitute Gabor > > (It is also the case when running 5.6.1)