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in thread print "$var\n" or print $var, "\n"

Unless of course someone's mucked with $\ . . . 

$ perl -le '$\="wubba\n"; print "foo\n"'
foo
wubba

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Update: Good point about printf below. There's also syswrite, for that matter.

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Re^3: print "$var\n" or print $var, "\n"
by Animator (Hermit) on Feb 17, 2005 at 20:48 UTC
    A 'fix' for that: printf :)
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Re^3: print "$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.

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