Well, we can make guesses at what you mean. But a little sample code like the following would allow us to answer your actual question rather than any one of the many we could invent for you.

use strict;
use warnings;

my $temp = 'Plugh';
my $str = <<STR;
To %ad or not to %ad,
that is the question.
Oh %ad on you.
STR

$str =~ s/%ad/$temp/g;
print $str;
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Prints:

To Plugh or not to Plugh,
that is the question.
Oh Plugh on you.
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If that isn't the answer to the question you were intending, please alter the sample code to illustrate what you really want to know. You ought to read I know what I mean. Why don't you? BTW. It was written for you.

Update: fix cut and paste problem

I guess you meant either

my $temp = 'xyzzy';
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or

To Plugh or not to Plugh.
that is the question.
Oh Plugh on you.
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Perhaps that should be "Oh plague on cut and paste" :-)

Cheers,

JohnGG

Argh ...

A plague on doing stuff in a hurry while the world is falling apart :)

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DWIM is Perl's answer to Gödel

What did you try?