string not block Re: SPUG: interpolating into a string variable

[Fred Morris]

Ooerr.. that was my mistake, eval a string not a block... d'oh!

At 10:13 PM 12/20/03, Brian Hatch wrote:
> I wrote:
>>     my $foo_str = 'foo';
>>
>>     my $expr = 'a $foo_str happens here';
>>
>>     my $interpolated_expr = something magic happens to $expr;
>>
>> and then if you print "$interpolated_expr\n"; you would get
>>
>>     a foo happens here
>
>my $interpolated_expr;
>
>eval "\$interpolated_expr = \"$expr\"; ";
>
>(Hope I didn't miss any backslashes.)

Close enough to kick the proper brain cells into gear, thanks! ;-)

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Fred Morris
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