There's no direct way of inserting expressions into strings, but you can do a sneaky scalar dereference e.g
print "1 * 2 * 3 = ${\scalar 1 * 2 * 3}\n";
__output__
1 * 2 * 3 = 6
So what's happening there is that you're dereferencing a reference, and since you can put any old statement
1 in the dereference you can use your expression (make sure there is a reference operator so there's something to dereference).
Also, watch out on your array usage as you probably want $ParsedTime[$year], where as @ParsedTime[$year] is a single element array slice. This will be picked up by the ever useful warnings module.
HTH
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broquaint
1 this isn't strictly true, you can't have a straight compound statements in your dereference
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