How to include a string immediately after a variable in a double-quoted string

msh210 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi, Monks,

I have a bunch of scalar variables to include in a string. In order to avoid a bunch of ugly concatenation dots, I include them all in a double-quoted string. So far, so good. But one of the variables is to be followed, within the string, by some (non-variable alphanumeric) text. Obviously, I can't just concatenate them within the double-quoted string. Two options I can think of are:

print "The maximum number of $type" . "events on $date occurred $maxtimes times; it was $max.\n";
print "The maximum number of $type$\events on $date occurred $maxtimes times; it was $max.\n"; if $\ is undefined

But I don't much like either of those. The first is a bit ugly/inelegant to my mind: I prefer one long double-quoted string. The second is dependent on a variable that may change in a later revision of the script; plus, it's distasteful to me because there's nothing tying $\ to this string semantically.

Is there a more elegant way of doing this? Or is my option 1 (or 2?) considered elegant enough?

print map chr($w+=$_),74,43,-2,1,-84,65,13,1,5,-12,-3,13,-82,48,21,13,-6,-76,78,-9,18,-21,7,-4,-57,-34#stackoverflow.com/q/10858682

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Re: How to include a string immediately after a variable in a double-quoted string by dave_the_m (Monsignor) on Nov 20, 2015 at 21:13 UTC
`print "The maximum number of ${type}events on $date occurred $maxtimes times; it was $max.\n";` Dave.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: How to include a string immediately after a variable in a double-quoted string by stevieb (Canon) on Nov 20, 2015 at 21:14 UTC
Interpolating inner braces (`"${var}"`) to the rescue!!! `perl -E '$x="hi "; say "${x}there"' hi there` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: How to include a string immediately after a variable in a double-quoted string by jeffa (Bishop) on Nov 20, 2015 at 21:44 UTC
You can also use printf/sprintf to keep your data separated from the "presentation": `printf "The maximum number of %sevents on %s occurred %d times; it was + %d.\n", $type, $date, $maxtimes, $max, ;` [download] jeffa L-LL-L--L-LL-L--L-LL-L-- -R--R-RR-R--R-RR-R--R-RR B--B--B--B--B--B--B--B-- H---H---H---H---H---H--- (the triplet paradiddle with high-hat)	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: How to include a string immediately after a variable in a double-quoted string by stevieb (Canon) on Nov 20, 2015 at 22:54 UTC
I always forget about `printf` in Perl. In Python (3+), there's no interpolation, so I'd have to do `print("Hello {}, how are you {}".format(name, today))`. No matter what you want to print with variables, you have to do it this way (at least for a normal `print` statement), including all the parens and cruft. I've taken perl interpolation for granted me thinks ;) Read more... (542 Bytes)	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: How to include a string immediately after a variable in a double-quoted string by msh210 (Monk) on Nov 22, 2015 at 04:57 UTC
Thank you! `print map chr($w+=$_),74,43,-2,1,-84,65,13,1,5,-12,-3,13,-82,48,21,13,-6,-76,78,-9,18,-21,7,-4,-57,-34#stackoverflow.com/q/10858682`	[reply]
Re: How to include a string immediately after a variable in a double-quoted string by msh210 (Monk) on Nov 20, 2015 at 21:16 UTC
Thank you, dave_the_m, stevieb! `print map chr($w+=$_),74,43,-2,1,-84,65,13,1,5,-12,-3,13,-82,48,21,13,-6,-76,78,-9,18,-21,7,-4,-57,-34#stackoverflow.com/q/10858682`	[reply]