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Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

i can't figure this out, and I know this must exist in perl either as a construct, or a print/sprintf method...


I'm looking for an idiomatic way to essentially print an "a" followed by 5 "!" characters

ie: print ( "a" . ( "!" * 5 ) )

does that make sense? how the hell do i do this ?