Usually, when I want to prepend, I just change the order of operations into an append. Instead of: 

  $script = 'foo.pl';
  # or $script = <STDIN>; chomp $script;
  $path = '/some/path/';
  $script = $path . $script;

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I'll do: 
  $script = '/some/path';
  $script .= 'foo.pl';
  # or $script .= <STDIN>; chomp $script;

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Often, I find that this actually makes more sense in my head because I'm building my string from left to right, which is how I think of the string.

Alternatives is to build the string from pieces using sprintf or join. And, in my particular example, an option would be to use the join-like File::Spec.

In reply to Re: What operator prepends? by Tanktalus
in thread What operator prepends? by EdwardG

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