Do you understand how '...' and "..." work in Perl? q() and qq() work pretty the same way, respectively. "Interpolation" just means some characters have special meaning (\, $, @ to name a few).

In most cases I understand the different quote styles... but I do still get confused at times regarding which is needed. Of course, that part about '...' not letting variable expand... I do get.

I understand that qq~ ... ~ works for my purpose. As to understanding exactly what happens there... no. I mean beyond restricting the output to only between those tilde symbols. Any deeper ... er .. no.

You forcing me to see it a little better... has cleared it up at last