Re: Looking for an explanation

print ($life = "hard") -1; Store "hard" in $life,

Substract 1 from the result of that assignment ("hard") "hard", when used in a string context is casted to int (0) 0 - 1 == -1 Output result of subtraction (casted to string): "-1"

print "\nlife: {$life}\n"; Concatenate "\nlife: " with contents of $life ("hard") and concatenate that with "\n"

Output the result of concatenation -Sara