I'm confused, can someone tell me why: #!/usr/bin/perl
use bytes; $x = chr( 400 ); print "Length is ", length( $x ), "\n"; prints 1, while #!/usr/bin/perl $x = chr( 400 ); use bytes; print "Length is ", length( $x ), "\n"; prints 2? % perl -v This is perl, v5.8.2 built for i686-linux //Ed