In addition to the 'pram' operator (also known as the Baby Cart From Hell operator), there's something like: 

c:\@Work\Perl\monks>perl -wMstrict -le
"sub stars { return \ ('*' x $_[0]); }
 ;;
 my $str = qq{foo-${ stars(5) }-bar};
 print qq{'$str'};
"
'foo-*****-bar'

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But why bother? Just use good old sprintf; that's what it's there for. 

c:\@Work\Perl\monks>perl -wMstrict -le
"sub stars { return '*' x $_[0]; }
 ;;
 my $str = sprintf 'foo%s%sbar', stars(5), '=' x 7;
 print qq{'$str'};
"
'foo*****=======bar'

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Update: Added sprintf example, Baby Cart WP link.

In reply to Re: Function call inside qq// by AnomalousMonk
in thread Function call inside qq// by carlriz

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