I have been having a lot of trouble trying to port some VB code to Perl and was hoping that theMonks could shed some light on this for me. Here is a snippet of the VB code: 
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strItemGUID = "{0420060000000000C000000000000046}"  

ptag_EMAIL_ADDRESS = "0x8083" 

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myAddress = colFields(strItemGUID & ptag_EMAIL_ADDRESS)

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I have tried:
myAddress = colFields(strItemGUID & ptag_EMAIL_ADDRESS);
myAddress = colFields(strItemGUID && ptag_EMAIL_ADDRESS);
myAddress = colFields('{0420060000000000C000000000000046}0x8083');
myAddress = colFields('0420060000000000C0000000000000460x8083');
myAddress = colFields(0420060000000000C0000000000000460x8083);


None of which worked. I have also been having trouble representing a value like: (&H3A16001E) in perl. Any help or leads in the right direction will be greatly appreciated. Chris

In reply to From VB to Perl by ChrisR

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