Mike Pastore wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, John Porter wrote:
> > grep() always treats its "second" arg as a list, even if it's a scalar,
> > or some other list-of-one (or none); and grep() always returns a list,
> > even if it's a list of one (or none).
> 
> True on the first part, false on the second. In scalar context, grep
> returns the number of times the block or expression evaluated 'true'.

Oh yeah!   :-/


> > Highlander variables acknowledge the fact ...
> 
> When I said 'highlander' I meant one variable per variable name. Please
> read RFC9.

Yes, I have, I know, that's what I meant by it too.

-- 
John Porter

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