http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=8703 Tested with and without various combinations of strict and warnings, seems fine to me. Casey West -- "Our wines leave you nothing to hope for." --On the Menu of a Swiss Restaurant --- perl-current.orig/pod/perltrap.pod Sun Apr 21 13:33:55 2002 +++ perl-current/pod/perltrap.pod Fri May 9 11:11:12 2003 @@ -1344,7 +1344,7 @@ =item * Interpolation -Double-quoted strings may no longer end with an unescaped $ or @. +Double-quoted strings may no longer end with an unescaped $. $foo = "foo$"; $bar = "bar@";Thread Next