Re^2: Invoking API

So for this line,

$image->Annotate( gravity    =>'southeast', 
                  font       =>'Arial', 
                  pointsize  =>$fontsize, 
                  fill       =>$color,  
                  x          =>500, 
                  y          =>$y, 
                  text       =>$config_data[$i][0], " Information Last
+ Updated at: ", scalar localtime((stat($filename))[9]))";
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It's the text section that's driving me crazy. Normally the text is supplied with single quotes, which as you've explained is not interpolated. But having the line like this isn't working either:

...
                  text       =>"$config_data[$i][0] Information Last U
+pdated at: scalar localtime((stat($filename))[9]))";
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Nor is any combination of double quotes, no quotes, or comma-separated values I can think of. I keep getting syntax errors. I'm sure this is simple but I just don't see it.

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Re^3: Invoking API by soonix (Chancellor) on Jul 05, 2013 at 07:34 UTC
`scalar localtime((stat($filename))[9])` is not a variable (although its result varies, of course), so I guess variable interpolation doesn't help here. Here, I'd use the string concatenation operator, like this: `text =>$config_data[$i][0] . " Information Last Updated at: " . lo +caltime((stat($filename))[9]) );` [download] My perl is a bit rusty (peak use was at the turn of the century), but AFAIR the `scalar` can be omitted here	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Invoking API by mcoblentz (Scribe) on Jul 05, 2013 at 21:24 UTC
1. Turns out there were extra parentheses in the scalar/localtime routine, which were closing out the text field early. Just another case of a "short circuit between the headphones". 2. Thanks to the respondents, who encouraged me to "pretty-fy" the API call; that's what led me to the cause.	[reply]