> > > > I assume that this was supposed to be: > > =~ m/\s*(?:y|(ok))/i
I did. > > > > But this is hardly easier than 'eq'. > Easier for the programmer? Of course not! Heh, when I say better I mean better for the user, and therefore a better bit of software. Programmers are just staff, but users are people :-) Any program that claims to accept the string "y" as input meaning 'yes' (where there are limited alternatives, such as 'no' and 'maybe') must also accept at least: " y" " Y" "yes" "yes " etc.. To not do so is broken, end of story. It baffles me that some people think in the year 2003 it's OK to have software that does this: > The program will now analyse the file "foo.db". This may take several hours. Type 'Yes' to continue or 'Quit' to abort the operation. > y > Please enter either 'Yes' or 'Quit' > yes > please enter either 'Yes' or 'Quit' But I still see rubbish like this all the time. And we wonder why people prefer GUI's.... ;-) Jon
