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Version Location Description Submitted by Date submitted
Printed Page 150
The example code after the 2nd paragraph

I realize it is just example code and perhaps not meant to be executable (because of the ellipses), but it might be better to put the if statement on a new line. Also consider comments instead of ellipses to make it executable:

print "Do you like Perl? ";
my $likes_perl = (<STDIN> =~ /\byes\b/i);
# Time passes...
if ($likes_perl) {
print "You said earlier that you like Perl, so...\n";
# Celebrate another Perl convert!
}

 Jack C  Mar 16, 2024 
Printed Page 163
The Binding Operator

$file_name =~ s#\A.*/##s; should be $file_name =~ s#\A.*/##g;

 Anonymous  Feb 10, 2022