I am writing my MSc with LaTeX and I have the problem that sometimes my words are divided in a wrong way. My language is spanish and I'm using babel package. How could I solve it? For example: p...

Why does this print 42: $answer = 42; $variable = "answer"; print ${$variable} . "\n"; but this doesn't: my $answer = 42; my $variable = "answer"; print ${$variable} . "\n";

I'm looking at some older Perl code on Perl Monks to figure out programming with Win32::OLE and MS Word. Scattered throughout the code are variables with names like $MS::Word and the like, without ...

When I read through Programming Perl, 2nd Edition, Page 51, something confuses me : sub newopen { my $path = shift; local *FH; #not my! open (FH, $path) || return undef; return *FH; } $fh = n...