On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 01:37:29PM -0800, Ravi Malghan wrote:
> Hi: I have a variable called $agent_id and want to create a string with the
> value of $agent_id followed by "-str". The following does not seem to work.
> The following example I want to create a variable called $35-str.
>
> $agent_id = 25;
> $agent_id."-str" = "This is test\n";
>
> I get the following error.
> bash-2.05$ ./test.1.pl
> Can't modify concatenation (.) or string in scalar assignment at ./test.1.pl
> line 14, near ""This is test\n";"
> Execution of ./test.1.pl aborted due to compilation errors.
>
> Anyone have comments on how I can accomplish this?
Oops. Now you've gone and done it.
Here are some comments for you:
1. Use a hash instead.
2. You can't start a variable name with a digit.
3. perl -e '$agent_id = 25; ${"$agent_id-str"} = "This is test\n"; print
${"25-str"}'
4. See http://perl.plover.com/varvarname.html
5. $agent_id += 10;
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