Either I'm missing something important... or you're going waaaay out of your way to achieve this:

#!/usr/bin/env perl
use Modern::Perl;
# 943467

my $MaxScanId = 45;
my $a = "Scan";

print "$a, \$MaxScanId: $MaxScanId";

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which prints "Scan, $MaxScanId: 45" But since the reasonable suspicion is the first alternative above, could you tell us where I'm going wrong. The intent of your reference to "a reference" just isn't working its way to the space between my ears, since I can't see a reason for using a reference to achieve what you say you were "looking for."

In reply to Re: Concatenation of scaler reference by ww
in thread Concatenation of scaler reference by Largins

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