Works fine for me.

$st1="12"; 
$st2="08"; 
$result = $st1 . $st2;
print "Got $result\n";

__DATA__
Got 1208
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You must be doing something else. Perhaps post your actual code. If you don't quote your numbers and use $st2=08 you will get an error (illegal octal) but if you use 007 then you get this:

$st1="Bond, James Bond "; 
$st2=007; 
$result = $st1 . $st2;
print "Got $result\n";

__DATA__
Got Bond, James Bond 7
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This looks a bit like your error....

cheers

tachyon

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I can't seem to recreate your problem...

/ Mail: 0 / Tue Nov 12 14:39 /
~ $ cat concat.pl

$st1    = "12";
$st2    = "08";
$result = $st1 . $st2;
print "\n", $result, "\n\n";

/ Mail: 0 / Tue Nov 12 14:39 /
~ $ perl concat.pl

1208

/ Mail: 0 / Tue Nov 12 14:39 /
~ $
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Can you post a running example of the code not working as intended?

Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who
would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity.
            --Friedrich Nietzsche

Hi, The actual code is like this: ($min, $hours) = localtime(2,3); $now = "$hour" . "$min" # expect to see - $now = "1208" For minutes equal or greater than 2 digits, it's fine. Only when minutes is less than 2 digits ( < 10). Any help is appreciated.

The problem is that $min is returned from localtime as "2" instead of "02", the same with hours for that matter you could do something like the following:

my ($min,$hours) = (localtime)[2,3];
my $now = $hours . sprintf ("%02",$min);
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-enlil

Enlil beat me to the sprintf solution, but if you've got more complex date formatting to do, consider using the strftime function from the POSIX module.

use POSIX ;
my $now = POSIX::strftime( "%H%M", localtime ) ;
print $now, "\n" ;
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Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who
would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity.
            --Friedrich Nietzsche