I am trying to push a load of information onto an array, some of which looks like this:

push(@text,"CACHEFILE C:\\wwwtools\\analog\\OldLogs\\Cache\\All\\@ParsedTime[$year]$Months{@ParsedTime[$month]}-2* \n");

push(@text,"CACHEFILE C:\\wwwtools\\analog\\OldLogs\\Cache\\All\\@ParsedTime[$year]$Months{@ParsedTime[$month]-1}* \n");

What im trying to do is print out something that looks like YYMM. Its a bit messy,but $Months is a hash to convert the day (in words) to the day in numbers. So what i want to do is actually take @ParsedTime[$Month] - C, c being a constant number, and sent that to the Months array.

So if im on month 10 it will use month 8 and month 9 and push them onto the array. My problem is that the program is outputting it as a literal statement, something like 12-1 where 12(the current month) was passed correctly to $Months and converted, but the -1 is added onto the string. I tried passing the value like this also:

push(@text,"CACHEFILE C:\\wwwtools\\analog\\OldLogs\\Cache\\All\\@ParsedTime[$year]$Months{@ParsedTime[$month-1]}* \n");
But that actually wont output anything at all. I am all out of ideas, does anyone have any they wish to share with me?

In reply to Using expressions in string literals by wizard341

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