See also the vast range of file test operators Perl provides you with: perldoc -f -X or see the online version on this site here.

perl -e 'print "How sweet does a rose smell? "; chomp ($n = <STDIN>); 
+$rose = "smells sweet to degree $n"; *other_name = *rose; print "$oth
+er_name\n"'
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