making a new string out of many old ones

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

I know that this is probably very easy and the answer is probably staring me in the face but say I have

$a = "this";
$b = "is";
$c = "a";
$d = "sentence";
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and I want to make one string that looks like

this|is&a|sentence
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so that I have one $sentenceString that equals the above I want the pipes and "&" symbols in the string as well because that is the format of the database file I need to test against
been searching everywhere but to no avail... syntax is not my friend... yet.. thanks in advance -redpaw

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Re: making a new string out of many old ones by plaid (Chaplain) on Jul 14, 2000 at 01:41 UTC
Maybe i don't understand your question.. what won't work about `$sentence = "$a\|$b&$c\|$d";` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
RE: Re: making a new string out of many old ones by redpaw (Novice) on Jul 14, 2000 at 02:07 UTC
well it seems to not work in CGI land .... I get a server error every time I try that	[reply]
Re: making a new string out of many old ones by redpaw (Novice) on Jul 14, 2000 at 02:28 UTC
Ok I goofed... this was an unfortunately annoying little problem which was a combonation of 3 different errors which I just figured out all at once... the double quotes work fine thanks for the extremely quick replies all !!! -REDPAW	[reply]
(chromatic) Re: making a new string out of many old ones by chromatic (Archbishop) on Jul 14, 2000 at 02:03 UTC
For the sake of completeness, there's a concatenation operator -- the noble period. `my $first = "This is the whole "; my $second = "of the sentence."; my $full = $first . $second;` [download] But using double-quotish interpolation is definitely the way to go here.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: making a new string out of many old ones by infoninja (Friar) on Jul 14, 2000 at 01:42 UTC
One way: `$sentenceString = "$a\|$b&$c\|$d";` [download]	[reply] [d/l]


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