Win8 Strawberry 5.8.9.5 (32) Mon 03/15/2021 12:41:31 C:\@Work\Perl\monks >perl -Mstrict -Mwarnings my $foo = "%^&*("; my $bar = 'Bar'; my $string = "\U$bar\E \l\U$bar\E \Q$foo\E \n"; print $string; ^Z BAR bAR \%\^\&\*\(