note Aristotle <p>Try</p> <code> print "$Robert has canned ${name}'s sorry butt\n"; </code> <p>The apostrophe is the old-style package separator, still supported, so <tt>$name's</tt> is indeed equivalent to <tt>$name::s</tt>. By putting the curlies in there, you tell Perl exactly which part of the string to consider part of the variable name, and which part to consider a literal value.</p> <p align="right" class="pmsig pmsig-114691"><em>Makeshifts last the longest.</em></p> 66677 416283