How to concatenate variables in Perl

Question

Is there a different way to concatenate variables in Perl?

I accidentally wrote the following line of code:

print \"$linenumber is: \\n\" . $linenumb         


        

Answer 1

When formulating this response, I found this webpage which explains the following information:

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#Note that when you have double quoted strings, you don't always need to concatenate. Observe this sample:

#!/usr/bin/perl

$a='Big ';
$b='Macs';
print 'I like to eat ' . $a . $b;

#This prints out:
#  I like to eat Big Macs

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#If we had used double quotes, we could have accomplished the same thing like this:

#!/usr/bin/perl

$a='Big ';
$b='Macs';
print "I like to eat $a $b";

#Printing this:
#  I like to eat Big Macs
#without having to use the concatenating operator (.).

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#Remember that single quotes do not interpret, so had you tried that method with single quotes, like this:


#!/usr/bin/perl

$a='Big ';
$b='Macs';
print 'I like to eat $a $b';
#Your result would have been:
#  I like to eat $a $b
#Which don't taste anywhere near as good.

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