Just playing around....more then one way to skin a cat...of course some are preferred over others:

my $input = 'hello';
my $temp  = 'world';
$input = "$input $temp";
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my $input = 'hello';
my $temp  = 'world';
$input = $input . ' ' . $temp;
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my $input = 'hello';
my $temp  = 'world';
$input .= ' ' . $temp;
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my $input = 'hello';
my $temp  = 'world';
$input = join(' ', $input,$temp);
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my $input = 'hello';
my $temp  = 'world';
my @temp  = split('', $input);
push @temp, ' ';
push @temp, $_ for split('', $temp);
$input = join('',@temp);
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