For Quality purpouses, Ajey Kulkarni 's mail on Saturday 24 January 2004 17:52 may have been monitored or recorded as:
> hi,. hi > i would like to quickly append a string to a variable. > open NEWFH, "> $filename.new" or die "new procmailrc err"; > where $filename has /tmp/xyz > > Anything really silly here?? Nothing I didnt do wrong at least a thousand times: open NEWFH, "> $filename".".new" or die "new procmailrc err"; will do it. ------------ perldoc perlop: Gory details of parsing quoted constructs When presented with something that might have several dif- ferent interpretations, Perl uses the DWIM (that's "Do What I Mean") principle to pick the most probable inter- pretation. This strategy is so successful that Perl pro- grammers often do not suspect the ambivalence of what they write. But from time to time, Perl's notions differ sub- stantially from what the author honestly meant. ------------- This is one of the latter cases. Wolf -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
