in reply to Replacing a string with a memory variable

Use {} to delimit the variable name

$_ =~ s/<CT>/<section id=\"ch${acno}fm\" label=\"\" xreflabel=\"\" rol +e=\"fm\">/g;

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Lingua non convalesco, consenesco et abolesco. -- Rule 1 has a caveat! -- Who broke the cabal?
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