koacamper has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Quick question for the perlmonks masters. I am working on with a product database that will include the price of the products. How can I use the dollar sign in a .pl script without it giving me an internal error? 
     if ($data{$id}{'Name'} ne "") {
        print "<br><font face='$font_face' size=$font_size><SMALL> $da
+ta{$id}{'Name'}<BR></SMALL></FONT><font color=red size=+1>(Dollar Sig
+n Here?)$data{$price}{'Price'}";

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Re: Adding A Dollar Sign
by Fastolfe (Vicar) on Jan 13, 2001 at 21:32 UTC
    To use special characters within double-quotes, you need to 'quote' it with a backslash. 
    print "The price for $product is \$5.00.\n";

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    You can also use single-quotes to avoid most all special characters. 
    print 'The price is $5.00.', "\n";

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    You maybe interested in reading things like perlop or an introductory book in Perl regarding stuff like this.
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Re: Adding A Dollar Sign
by monk2b (Pilgrim) on Jan 13, 2001 at 21:44 UTC
    Finally a question I have the answer to and someone beats me to it.
    
print '$200.00' . "\n";
or
print "\$200.00\n";

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      In your first example, rather than a period, you can use a comma to pass print a list and avoid that (admittedly not all that expensive) concatenation: 

      print '$200.00', "\n";

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