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print "$Robert has canned $name's sorry butt\n"; I tried running this in PERL and it yelled at me saying that it didn't like $name::s. I changed this line of code to: print "$Robert has canned $name sorry butt\n"; And it worked fine 0_o An error in the tutorial perhaps?
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Re^2: Variable Scoping in Perl: the basics
by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Dec 24, 2004 at 01:50 UTC

    Try

    print "$Robert has canned ${name}'s sorry butt\n";

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    The apostrophe is the old-style package separator, still supported, so $name's is indeed equivalent to $name::s. By putting the curlies in there, you tell Perl exactly which part of the string to consider part of the variable name, and which part to consider a literal value.

    Makeshifts last the longest.

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      Thanks :D It works ^_^
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