SPUG: Eval Question

[Richard A. Puckett II]

Asim Jalis wrote:
> 
> Why doesn't this work?
> 
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> 
> my $y ;

Replace:

my $x = "$y = &length(q{hello world});" ;

with

my $x = '$y = length(q{hello world});';

  Want to use single quotes here so variables aren't "interpolated".
Also want to ditch the ampersand on "length".  FYI, you can check
$@ after the eval for possible errors.

- Richard.

> eval $x ;
> print "[$y]\n" ;

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