[pre_action]

The 'e' character is seen as an argument to the '-i' switch, meaning this command line will yield `Can't open perl script "s/foo/bar/gi": No such file or directory`

[JadeNB]

Sigh; I am not making much of a show of my Perl knowledge today. (I messed up a Perl find-alike elsethread.) Thanks for setting me straight.