Jason Balicki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

: Charles K. Clarkson <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

: : $retdate should NOT be in quotes.
: 
: What are the consequences of putting it in quotes?

    perlfaq4: What's wrong with always quoting "$vars"?


: Every place I print in the rest of the script I've
: enclosed the variables in quotes, even when I do things
: like:
: 
: print LOG "var1 has value $var1\n";
: 
: I can change it, but I just want to understand why it's
: a bad thing.  A pointer to documentation is fine.


    The above is okay. It is not necessary to quote a
single variable, though. (See above docs.)


HTH,

Charles K. Clarkson
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