You guys are great. I appreciate all of the information. Everything below is probably useless information to you.

In all my newbieness I am parsing through a text file that contains ${perlVariable}s with an eval like this: 

foreach my $markdown_filename(@sources)
{
    my $text = '';
    open(SOURCE, "<$markdown_filename");
    while(<SOURCE>)
    {
        $text .= eval('"' . $_ . '"');
    }
    close(SOURCE);
    print $text;
}

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I could incorporate the markdown into the perl script but then I wouldn't have the awesome ability to preview the formatting by drafting the markdown with DownMarker (https://bitbucket.org/wcoenen/downmarker).

The funny thing is that I was doing this to quiet down the warnings from the eval until I declared everything with my: 

use warnings;
no warnings 'once';

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I also ended up declaring the variables with my ($var1, $var2, $etc ); and then defining them below so that I could list them in alphabetical order at the top and in execution order when I define them. I have found that I can use the output from warnings/strict to tell me which variables I need to add to my alphabetical list of initializations.

In reply to Re: my $scope as the default for variables by Je55eah
in thread Please help me print this hash. by Je55eah

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