Hello, Monks. It's been a while. I've flirted with Python , Go, and Ruby but still end up using Perl since it's most comfortable.

Anyway, on with the question: If I could think of the nomenclature I'd use it, but what I want to do is pre-define a string that contains a variable that will be assigned only later, and still adhere to the strict and warnings pragmas. Here is some pseudo-code: 

my $url = "http://something.com/api_stuff/$GUID";

# do stuff
make_call( '1234' );

sub make_call {
    my $GUID = shift;
    POST->$url;
}

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Is anything like this even doable? I could set $GUID as a global variable but I don't want other subs that might use $url in different context to get hosed up. I may end up having to use regexes or other methods.

Thanks!

In reply to Strings with undefined variables? by 23skiddoo

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