Seeing s0ttle's recent post got me thinking.

And the thought crossed my mind:

What's the most TIMTOWTDI thing you can do? ie, what action can you perform in Perl in the most distinct ways?

Eg, string concatenation: 

$concat = $a.$b

$concat = "$a$b"

$concat = join '', $a, $b;

$concat = sprintf("%s%s",$a,$b); # silly

$concat =~ s/.*/$a$b/s;          # sillier!

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That's 5 distinct (some slightly silly) ways to do it.

Get your thinking caps on... And no cheating! :-) - eg, manipulating $a and $b first so you can then feed them into another function.

Is this golf? Na, it's Perl Pooltm

cLive ;-)

In reply to The most TIMTOWTDI thing you can do by cLive ;-)

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