Simple question

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

if ($digit > 3) {
    print "$digit" . "th";
}
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Anyway to write it with an escape character or null character to break up the scalar from the suffix (instead of using the dot operator)?
as in:

if ($digit > 3) {
    print "$digit[somemagicalnonprintingcharacter]th";
}
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Thanks.

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Re: Simple question by arturo (Vicar) on Apr 23, 2001 at 23:01 UTC
Sure is : `print "${digit}th" if $digit > 3;` HTH.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Simple question by indigo (Scribe) on Apr 24, 2001 at 00:14 UTC
arturo answered the question you asked, but this might be a better way of doing what you are doing: `my %cardinal = ( 1 => '1st', 2 => '2nd', 3 => '3rd', map { $_ => "${_}th" } 4 .. 9 ); print $cardinal{$digit};` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Simple question by Bliss (Novice) on Apr 24, 2001 at 21:46 UTC
Buddha's name be praised! You are all too kind. Thank you.	[reply]