Re: Re: Re: Scoping Variables

Yes, you are missing something really simple here. It's called interpolation and it happens inside double quotes. Put this in a script and run it. $x=1; print 'single quoted dollar x is $x'; print "\n"; print "double quoted dollar x is $x"; print "\n"; perl -e '

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Scoping Variables by Anonymous Monk on May 18, 2001 at 18:14 UTC
WHOOPS, Sorry. That should have been `$x=1; print 'single quoted dollar x is $x'; print "\n"; print "double quoted dollar x is $x"; print "\n";` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Scoping Variables by Clachair (Acolyte) on May 19, 2001 at 03:37 UTC
Many thanks. Neither of my enormous tomes containing Perls of wisdom explained that one!	[reply]


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