Joel wrote:
>
> Thanks for explaining the while loop, but what I was wondering is why perl
> printed the happy face and heart in the first place? I was using ASCII
> Characters and there aren't any like that.

But you weren't using ASCII characters unless your terminal saw them as such.
You were using byte values.

Tell us what platform you're on. It sounds a lot like DEC (Compaq) to me.

Rob



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