Works fine for me.

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

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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";

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

cheers

tachyon

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