On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 09:10:56AM -0500, James Edward Gray II wrote:
> On Monday, October 14, 2002, at 09:06 AM, Ramprasad A Padmanabhan
> wrote:
>
> >Dear all,
> >
> > Is there a way I can write
> > print "Number of records = ++$records in the db\n";
> > instead of
> > print "Number of records = " . ++$records . "in the
> >db\n";
>
> print "Number of records = ", ++$records, "in the db\n";
>
> ....but I doubt this is what you are looking for. What's wrong with the
> above choices, if you don't mind my asking?
Other options include:
print "Number of records = @{[++$records]} in the db\n";
and
http://search.cpan.org/author/JENDA/Interpolation-0.68/Interpolation.pm
But neither is necessarily guaranteed to improve the maintainability of
your code.
You could also wait for Perl 6 ...
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