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<font face="Courier New, Courier" size=2>Christiaan pointed this out to
me:<br><br>
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<dd>Spike - What dont you get right - I put this together and it
works?<br><br>
<dd>It should also work if you stick with: return @results;<br><br>
<dd>Do you also make provision for the new "09" and
"19" 11th and 12th digits?<br><br>
<dd>If I do </font><tt>($DoB, $sex) = said(1234567890123) or
die("$errstr"); (without ||) everything works<br><br>
<dd><font face="Courier New, Courier" size=2>If I do ($DoB, $sex) =
said(1234567890123) || die("$errstr"); (with ||) things go
awry<br><br>
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<dd><font face="Courier New, Courier" size=2>Why?<br><br>
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<dd>Christiaan<br><br>
</dl>He is right - when I use '||' it all goes wrong and with 'or' it
does exactly what i wanted.<br>
what is the difference?<br><br>
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