SPUG: interpolating into a string variable

[John W. Krahn]

On Saturday 20 December 2003 21:50, Fred Morris wrote:
> Let's say we have a string variable. In practice it's read in from a
> file, but it could be a constant. And what we want to do is force
> interpolation into it before we use it for something like... ooooh, a
> regex. So, something like this:
>
>     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
>
> Is there a way to do this? For some reason, I thought there was...
> thought I'd ask, because it's a Saturday night and the answer isn't
> materializing for me... dang.

http://search.cpan.org/~nobull/String-Interpolate-0.2/


John
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