Win8 Strawberry 5.8.9.5 (32) Wed 09/28/2022 18:56:53 C:\@Work\Perl\monks >perl use strict; use warnings; use Test::Simple tests=>1; 1..1 # Expected my $expected_file_name = 'D:\PROJ\N123_X3\dataInfo_X-4_Y5_decode.csv'; # Given my $X_info = 3; my $Y_info = -4; my $Z_info = 5; my @intro = ('D:\PROJ\N123_X', $X_info, '\dataInfo_X', $Y_info); my $concatenated_name = join '', @intro, '_Y', $Z_info, '_decode.csv', ; ok($concatenated_name eq $expected_file_name, 'join concatenation'); ^Z ok 1 - join concatenation