#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; my $str1 = hi; my $str2 = hello; my $str3 = hola; print uc("$str1, $str2, $str3 you ... ! ;-)"); BEGIN { open my $file,"<",$0; my $code=do{local $/=undef;<$file>}; $code =~ s/use strict;//; $code =~ s/^BEGIN.*\E//sm; no strict "subs"; no warnings; eval "$code" or die $@; exit; } #EOF