On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 11:54, Thomas Kaiser (ubuntu) wrote: > Why does > @title = split ("\.\./", $line); > and > @title = split ("../", $line); > give me the same results. The first argument to split should be a pattern. Either of these should work: @title = split (/\.\.\//, $line); @title = split (m"\.\./", $line); --Mike Bird