[hennigs@rapogy2 test]$ perl -e "eval reverse q~. ssurG.q tnirp~;$_=reverse map{chr}(105,118,97,104);print;" Can't modify concatenation (.) or string in scalar assignment at -e line 1, near ");" syntax error at -e line 1, near ";=" Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors. [hennigs@rapogy2 test]$