in reply to Adding A Dollar Sign

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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Re: Re: Adding A Dollar Sign
by eg (Friar) on Jan 13, 2001 at 22:21 UTC

    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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