Hello again, Mitch! To expound on my anonymous brother's answer, what you're doing here: 

my $deux = $toto, print "\n", $tutu;

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is assigning $toto to $deux, and then executing print "\n", $tutu. In order to embed a newline in $deux, you could do either of the following: 

$deux = "$toto\n$tutu";        # variable interpolation in double-quot
+ed strings
$deux = $toto . "\n" . $tutu;  # string concatenation

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Of course, if you merely care about printing, the following will also work: 

print $toto, "\n", $tutu;

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This works because print is a list operator that can take an arbitrary number of arguments -- but you can't do the same when assigning to a scalar, you have to use either interpolation or string concatenation (the . operator).

In reply to Re: simple scalars question by AppleFritter
in thread simple scalars question by mitchreward

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