On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 09:58:50PM -0700, Bryan Harris wrote: > >> What's going on here? > > > > You need something like > > > > $b="${i}_".$j*2; > > > > otherwise you are trying to access $i_ > > Interesting! It seems like I do things like this all the time... How does > perl decide where the variable ends and the quoted text begins?
Take a look at the section on "Variable names" at the beginning of perldoc perldata. -- Paul Johnson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pjcj.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>