On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 15:24, Shlomi Fish <shlomif at iglu.org.il> wrote: snip >> Readonly my $FOO_REGEX => qr{ $FOO [^#]+ -D $FOO }xms; snip A smaller test case: perl -le '$x = 1; print qr/ $x [#] $x /x;' -- Chas. Owens wonkden.net The most important skill a programmer can have is the ability to read.