On Sun, 26 May 2002, Dave C. wrote:
> > Your first search-replace modifies tha $local_part variable (unfortunately)
> > so that when you work with it again, its value is already "subscribe"
> > You can verify this by replacing
> > ${sg{$local_part}{^.*-}{}}
> > with just $local_part
>
>
> Yikes! that seems counter intuituve - I wouldnt expect sg to actualy
> modify its input, only take the input and give its result.
Correct. It doesn't modify its input.
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