I would like to appologise, I do not know which perldoc document to ask for this but, what is allowed in naming a perl variable? More specifically: What characters are allowed for the first character? Is it alphanumerica, or are numbers not allowed for the first character?

I am sorry, but the book I originally learn perl from was a library book, and I cannot remember what the starting character allows. I cannot remember which perldoc manpage to check--as `perldoc perlvar` did something silly like contain info on predefined variables. A quick `perldoc -q variables` return two FAQ questions that did not tell me what I wanted. `perldoc -q naming` returned nothing as did `perldoc -q names`

Even giving a name of entry in perldoc would be nice.

Thank you for your time

In reply to Very quick question about names in perl by dakedesu

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