so if $a=wolf, I want to appent the characters .pl, so $a now equals wolf.pl. I tried this: $a = ${a}.pl;
Why did you try that? 
perl -we"$a=wolf;die $a"
Unquoted string "wolf" may clash with future reserved word at -e line 
+1.
wolf at -e line 1.

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Did you ever run accross this error?

How do you declare a string in perl?

$a and ${a} both refer to the scalar $a, and that part's understandable, but what did you think .pl would do?

The period (.) is the concatination perator, and it will concatinate $a and pl. 

perl -we"$a=1;$a=${a}.pl;print $a"
Unquoted string "pl" may clash with future reserved word at -e line 1.

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You should have seen this error before. What you're probably after is $a = "${a}.pl";

Where are you learning perl from?
Do you have a perl book?
What perl documentation have you read?

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In reply to Re: Appending characters to an existing string by PodMaster
in thread Appending characters to an existing string by wolverina

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