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in reply to syntax error at example.pl line 1

After you add that missing semicolon, you might want to look at single quotes around a variable name towards the end.

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Re^2: syntax error at example.pl line 1
by AnomalousMonk (Archbishop) on Jun 17, 2016 at 05:43 UTC

    If you're thinking of
        print "'$cheese' ";
    it should be ok because the single-quotes are actually in | actually literal characters within a double-quote operator: 

    c:\@Work\Perl\monks>perl -wMstrict -le
"my $cheese = 'limburger';
 print \"'$cheese' \";
"
'limburger'

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