Hi,
This is my small portion of a bigger program.
I need to concatenate 3 variables.The details are here.But output is r
+esulting in 2 seperate lines rather than on a single line

or in an another way I need to add \dir2 to the main directory path C:
+\shyam\dir1 and final path should be

 "C:\shyam\dir1\dir2" when printed or accessed in program but i am get
+ting as C:shyam\dir1 and \dir2 in 2 seperate lines.Because of this my
+ copy is failing. 

Please help

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$\ = "\n" ; 
$, = "\t" ;
#$|=1;
use strict;
use warnings;
use POSIX qw[ _exit ];
use MIME::Lite;
use Sort::External;
use Net::Ping;
use Win32::DriveInfo;


$source="C:\shyam\dir1;

$sym="\";

$file="dir2"; ## please note that this value is not directly assigned 
+but being extracted from another directory path using slicing.Ex: C:\
+sundar\dir2

$source_mod=join '',$source,$sym,$file;

print "$source_mod";

Note: I have also used . opeartor but result is still the same.I am su
+specting about $\="\n" in the beginning.But this is required as the o
+ther part of my program needs this.

Please help

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In reply to concatenation of variables resulting in 2 seperate lines by rkshyam

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