Brian Gruber wrote: > > Hello, Hello,
> In the midst of learning perl, I was messing around with stuff, and I > found the following behavior to be a bit confusing. For some reason, > I seem to be unable to cat a \u or \l for that matter with another > string using the . operator. Other backslash-escaped characters > (tabs, newlines etc.) work fine. So for example: > > $foo = "\u" . "bar"; > print $foo; #or even print "$foo"; > > Prints "bar" and not "Bar". on the other hand: > > $foo = "bar"; > print "\u$foo"; > > works as expected. i'm sure there's a good reason for this; could > someone explain it to me? The strings are interpolated (evaluated) before the concatenation is performed. "\u" becomes "" before the strings are joined together. $ perl -MO=Deparse -e'print "\u" . "bar"' print 'bar'; -e syntax OK John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
