Hi, the shell (unix) does the expansion. Probably you can turn the expansion off - see your shell man page - but I know no switch which does this. The only way to keep the special characters (for the shell) is to quote them in single quotes (or don't have a match for the expansion). _______________________________________________ ActivePerl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/listinfo/activeperl
