Something like this will do the trick:


my @lines = &read_all_lines_into_an_array();

# Here you set the values for the variables you want
# interpolated later...

eval qq{print "$_\n"} for @lines;

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(Since this looks a lot like homework, I won't elaborate on the sub read_all_lines_into_an_array().

As perl will automatically interpolate the variables for you. However, this approach is *very* dangerous, as you would be trusting "code" coming from outside your script without proper sanity checking. Although the code would only go as far as a print, I would not consider this good programming practice. If you only care for simple scalar interpolation, you can probably do something along these lines: 

for my $line (@lines) {
    for my $var ('@scalars_to_interpolate) {
    eval qq{\$line =~ s/\\$var/$var/g}, "\n";
    }
    print $line, "\n";
}

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Provided that you have a list of the scalars to interpolate.

Regards.

In reply to Re: variable expansion by fokat
in thread variable expansion by Anonymous Monk

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