Hi

I am a new user here and this is my first posting. I am writing a snippet of code to read an input string from command line. Here is the snippet I use : 
$text=$ARGV[0];
print "$text\n";

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This reads the value of ARGV[0] into a variable and prints it. If I give it an input of "This is $200", the print out is
"This is 00"

I understand that this happens because perl interprets $2 like a (reg-ex) variable rather than a dollar value (money). Printing $text with a single quote will not interpolate the $text variable.

How can I read a line from input stream with a dollar in it??
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks

In reply to How do I escape a "$" in the input stream by Anonymous Monk

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