in reply to Re^3: Executing a string as a Perl command
in thread Executing a string as a Perl command
This short illustrative example has $cmd set inline, but in a real program, it could be constructed from other variables, it could be read from a user, it could be read from a file, etc.
The question was simply how to get it to execute once it was set. The answer is eval.
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