#! perl
use Modern::Perl;

my ($VAR1, $VAR2);
my  $INST = 'C';

while (<DATA>)
{
    chomp;

    if (/ ^ ([^=]*?) = (.*) $ /x)
    {
        my ($lhs, $rhs) = ($1, $2);
        eval '$' . $lhs . ' = "' . $rhs . '";';
        warn $@ if $@;
    }
}

say for $VAR1, $VAR2;

__DATA__
VAR1=$INST/dirivebase/program
VAR2=$INST/origbase/data

##</code><code>##

22:54 >perl 513_SoPW.pl
C/dirivebase/program
C/origbase/data

23:07 >