I'm trying to create some HTML with Perl. The print stament has a variable immediately before some text and I read that in these cases, you should surround the variable name with brackets. Here's the code I'm using: 

my $link = "<a href=\"" . &getQueryString('title') . "\">";
print "<th>${link}Title</a></th>\n";

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No matter how I think about this, I can't see how using "&lt;th&gt;$linkTitle&lt;/a&gt; would be good. However, when I run this using strict and with the -w option, Perl spits out the following warning: 

Ambiguous use of ${link} resolved to $link at movies.pl line 165.

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I wish I could find where I read I could surround variables with brackets, but I can't. Is this valid? If so, then what's it called. Searching the web for "${" isn't proving too fruitful.

Note: After previewing the message it seems odd that I'm even splitting this into two lines. I repeat these lines with some slight modifications a few times and keeping everything in two lines keeps the code readable for me.

Thank you.

In reply to Printing Scalars Next to Text by svsingh

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
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