Scalar variables are simple variables containing only one element–a string or a number. Strings may contain any symbol, letter, or number. Numbers may contain exponents, integers, or decimal values. The bottom line here with scalar variables is that they contain only one single piece of data. What you see is what you get with scalar [...]

A variable is defined by the ($) symbol (scalar), the (@) symbol (arrays), or the (%) symbol (hashes).

Here is what each type of variable should look like inside of a script.

definevariables.pl: #!/usr/bin/perl print “Content-type: text/html \n\n”; #HTTP HEADER $myname = “some_value”; @array = (“value00″,”value01″,”value02″); %hash = (“Quarter”, 25, “Dime”, 10, “Nickle”, 5); — [...]