Thanks a ton to all. On Sat, 24 Jan 2004, drieux wrote:
> > On Jan 23, 2004, at 5:24 PM, wolf blaum wrote: > > > For Quality purpouses, Ajey Kulkarni 's mail on Saturday 24 January > > 2004 17:52 > > may have been monitored or recorded as: > > > >> i would like to quickly append a string to a variable. > > > >> open NEWFH, "> $filename.new" or die "new procmailrc err"; > >> where $filename has /tmp/xyz > >> > >> Anything really silly here?? > > > > Nothing I didnt do wrong at least a thousand times: > > > > open NEWFH, "> $filename".".new" or die "new procmailrc err"; > [..] > > forgive me for being 'pedantic' but > given the sequence > > foreach my $filename (@list_of_file_names) > { > open(NEWFH, "> ${filename}.new" ) or die "new $filename err:$!"; > .... > > } > > One has 'less ambiguity' using the curley braces around > the variable name so that it will KNOW without a doubt > that one really means that to be the variable should > suffice - It really becomes important when you want > to concatenate without things like a "." between tokens > > foreach my $start (@entree) { > foreach my $phrase (@list_of_sillies) { > my $freak = "${start}Buzz${phrase}here"; > rhetorical_devices($freak); > } > } > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response> > > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>