in reply to Re: Scoping Variables
in thread Scoping Variables

Ahem, er, am I missing something really simple here?
I wouldn't expect this statement to work:- 
if ($foo) {
            print "the date is... $date \n <br>";
         }

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at least not on my Perl version.

Surely, it should be:-
if ($foo) {
            print "The date is...", $date, "\n <br>";
         }

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Never lick a gift horse in the mouth.

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Re: Re: Re: Scoping Variables
by Anonymous Monk on May 18, 2001 at 18:13 UTC
    Yes, you are missing something really simple here. It's called interpolation and it happens inside double quotes. Put this in a script and run it. $x=1; print 'single quoted dollar x is $x'; print "\n"; print "double quoted dollar x is $x"; print "\n"; perl -e '
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      WHOOPS, Sorry. That should have been 
      $x=1;
print 'single quoted dollar x is $x';
print "\n";
print "double quoted dollar x is $x";
print "\n";

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      Many thanks.
      Neither of my enormous tomes containing Perls of wisdom explained that one!
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