Harold Castro <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I'm trying to loop into printing a series of lines so
: I used here document. Substitution of variables, e.g.,
: $_ works inside the HERE-Document but appending a
: string won't work
:
: For example:
:
: if the current content of $word is the word "big", and
: I would want to print a here document appending
: something to "big" like "foot":
:
: print <<EOF;
:
: $word."foot" -> won't work, display it as is.
: "$word"."foot" -> neither this one
: $wordfoot -> error. it becomes a single
: variable named $wordfoot
:
: EOF
my $word = 'big';
print <<EOF;
${word}foot -> Works Fine.
EOF
HTH,
Charles K. Clarkson
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