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This nifty trick was invented by Andrew Pimlott
Beginners want to say this:
$salary = 43_000;
print "After your raise, you will make $salary*1.06.\n";
But it doesn't work:
"After your raise, you will make 43000*1.06.\n";
Because, of course, expressions aren't evalauted inside of strings.
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