* deleted an extra "of"
* added an example of the Interpolation module
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RCS file: /cvs/public/perlfaq/perlfaq4.pod,v
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diff -u -d -r1.71 perlfaq4.pod
--- perlfaq4.pod 23 Nov 2005 07:46:45 -0000 1.71
+++ perlfaq4.pod 22 Dec 2005 17:12:30 -0000
@@ -589,7 +589,7 @@
This is documented in L<perlref>, and although it's not the easiest
thing to read, it does work. In each of these examples, we call the
-function inside the braces of used to dereference a reference. If we
+function inside the braces used to dereference a reference. If we
have a more than one return value, we can construct and dereference an
anonymous array. In this case, we call the function in list context.
@@ -610,9 +610,17 @@
sub timestamp { my $t = localtime; \$t }
print "The time is ${ timestamp() }.\n";
+
+The C<Interpolation> module can also do a lot of magic for you. You can
+specify a variable name, in this case C<E>, to set up a tied hash that
+does the interpolation for you. It has several other methods to do this
+as well.
+
+ use Interpolation E => 'eval';
+ print "The time values are $E{localtime()}.\n";
-In most cases, it is probably easier to simply use string
-concatenation, which also forces scalar context.
+In most cases, it is probably easier to simply use string
concatenation,
+which also forces scalar context.
print "The time is " . localtime . ".\n";
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brian d foy, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
