in reply to Expanding a variable

I doubt you tried using double quotes, if you had your script would have opened a file of the right name, perhaps you mis-understood someone's instruction, the open command should read 
open (MYFILE, '>>', "Z:/My Documents/Workspace/$test.csv");

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The three parameter version, while not strictly needed in this instance is nicer as it avoids clobbering files if the string ends up starting with a > by mistake.

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Re^2: Expanding a variable
by moritz (Cardinal) on Sep 09, 2010 at 14:01 UTC
    Have you tested your code? 
    $ perl -E 'my $x = 3; say "foo\$x"'
foo$x

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    (Agreed on the thre-argument open though)

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      Edited to fix, no windows sys handy, so I forgot the obvious error.
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