Re: print "$var\n" or print $var, "\n"

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Re^2: print "$var\n" or print $var, "\n" by Fletch (Bishop) on Feb 17, 2005 at 20:07 UTC
Unless of course someone's mucked with `$\` . . . `$ perl -le '$\="wubba\n"; print "foo\n"' foo wubba` [download] Update: Good point about `printf` below. There's also `syswrite`, for that matter.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: print "$var\n" or print $var, "\n" by Animator (Hermit) on Feb 17, 2005 at 20:48 UTC
A 'fix' for that: printf :)	[reply]
Re^3: print "$var\n" or print $var, "\n" by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Feb 19, 2005 at 05:26 UTC
You can always localize it if you're afraid of ghosts. Makeshifts last the longest.	[reply]