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Interpolation means that Perl interpreter will substitute the values of variables for their name and some symbols (which are impossible or difficult to type in directly) for special sequences of characters (it is also known as escaping). The most important distinction is between single and double qu...

Perl interpolates variable names: my $name = 'Paul'; print "Hello, $name!\n"; # Hello, Paul! my @char = ('a', 'b', 'c'); print "$char[1]\n"; # b my %map = (a => 125, b => 1080, c => 11); print "$map{a}\n"; # 125 Arrays may be interpolated as a whol...