Received: from glacier.binc.net (glacier.binc.net [205.173.176.10]) by hub.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA00370 for ; Mon, 23 Nov 1998 10:16:02 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gfccall@mailbag.com) Received: from kpw (msn-1-33.x2.binc.net [198.70.31.33]) by glacier.binc.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) with ESMTP id JAA23786 for ; Mon, 23 Nov 1998 09:16:01 -0600 Reply-To: From: "Ken Wills" To: Subject: RE: [INTERFACES] RE: your mail (Should have been problems with ') Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 09:16:25 -0600 Message-ID: <000c01be16f4$3cfd0a00$211f46c6@kpw.gfc.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: <000601be16ef$eccb64e0$211f46c6@kpw.gfc.net> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Importance: Normal I just ended up doing: $phone_number =~ s/'/\\'\\'/g; to substitute two ' for every '. Thanks again to all for the suggestion. >a number of people suggested something like: >>$phone_number =~ s/'/\\'/g; >Seems like it only likes them in pairs. Ken