perlquestion rbala Hi , I have a small query regarding variable assignments in perl. See the below code. <code> $foo = "hello"; my $x = "$foo".$y; # $y is not yet defined. $y = "world"; print $x; </code> This gives output as only hello, seems the variable $y is not dynamically substituted in $x based on the next assignment <code>$y = world</code>. Is there any way to accomplish this like in makefiles we have this type of assignments. I got this situation when i want to create files dynamically with different names using this type of substitution. Any help ???? Thanks in Advance!!!