Use qq instead of qw to get the variable interpolation. Eric Winter, SSAI, NASA GSFC Code 662 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (301) 286-2316 Office: T2, Room 56
On Tue, 4 Jun 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear all, > > > I was trying to do this > > print "please input your variable:\n"; > $variable = <STDIN>; > @array = qw ( > string1 > $variable:string2 > string3 > ) > print "$array[1]\n"; > > > It print "$variable:string2" instead of the value of > $variable:string2. > > > How could I do what I wanted to do? > > > Thanks a lot! > > Yi Zhang > > _______________________________________________ > ActivePerl mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs > _______________________________________________ ActivePerl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs