"For some reason this is not a problem for the % symbol which, I find inconsistent."

Hashes are not interpolated becuase they are not sequential objects. Using them in that way does not really make sense, although there are several work-arounds when you need it for debugging.

"Surely the same attempt at variable expansion would apply to all the primitives."
OK, except that a hash is not all that primitive. How would you expect a glob to be interpolated? The " operator can be overloaded, so you can change its behaviour if you need to. I get the feeling you need to read-up on interpolation, for example, in you main code:
print "Array entry: ". $i. "\t". $array[$i]. "\n";

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Interpolated would be a bit nicer as:
print "Array entry: $i\t$array[$i]\n";

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In reply to Re: How do I disable variable expansion of strings? by cdarke
in thread How do I disable variable expansion of strings? by seank

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