Excerpts from Steve's message of Fri Feb 26 09:50:51 -0500 2010: > > This method works great! I was very close to getting coercion to work, > but somehow my substitution returned '2' every time. Thanks all for the > help
You were doing via { s/-//g } instead of via { s/-//g; $_ }, so you were
getting the number of matches.
hdp.
