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Scalars in perl are prefixed with a $. A scalar may contain any string, integer, or floating point value. It may also contain a reference pointer. An example declaration:
<syntaxhighlight lang="perl">my $message = "Hello world!\n"; print $message;</syntaxhighlight> |