perl -Mstrict -le 'my $s="blah"; print "%$s%"' #### perl -Mstrict -le 'my $s={foo=>"bar"}; print "%$s%"' #### perl -Mstrict -le 'my %s=(foo => "bar"); print "%s"' %s perl -Mstrict -le 'my $s=[qw/foo bar/]; print "%$s%"' %ARRAY(0x1801380)% perl -Mstrict -le 'my $s=[qw/foo bar/]; print "@$s@"' foo bar@