On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 05:54:20PM -0600, Keith Steensma wrote: > I've installed a very minimum Debian 'testing' system. > > I trying to run a perl script that uses a 'concat' function. I can't > find it as a built-in function of the language nor can I find it in the > Debian packages list. > > The error is - > Undefined subroutine &main::concat called at ./mbox2maildir.pl line 31. > > I've tried to form it into 'libmain-concat-perl' and various other > wording combinations (for the Debian package search). I tried another > script that does the same thing, but I got the same type of error (no > 'concat'). Neither script homepages have any mention of 'something > special' so I assume that it a 'standard' in other distributions (but > not Debian). > > Anyone have a suggestion? Keith Are you trying to concatenate two strings? If so, perl uses the "." operator: $x = "foo"; $y = "bar"; $z = $x . $y; # $z now equals "foobar" Often you can avoid using the . operator because Perl will expand variables inside double-quoted strings: $w = "$x$y"; # $w now equals "foobar" Walt
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