$ cat 2 Can't coerce UNKNOWN to string in substitution iterator at ./coerce.pl line 11, <> line 12. $ splain 2 Can't coerce UNKNOWN to string in substitution iterator at ./coerce.pl line 11, <> line 12 (#1) (F) Certain types of SVs, in particular real symbol table entries (typeglobs), can't be forced to stop being what they are. So you can't say things like: *foo += 1; You CAN say $foo = *foo; $foo += 1; but then $foo no longer contains a glob. #### 5 1 3 8 14 19 26 33