I brought this up briefly in the chatterbox and Bart got me started in the right direction. His solution was to store a reference to the variable as the hash value, which worked as he said it, but didn't work as I need it to. I have a hash that I am looking to store function parameters and some text in. Some of the parameters are stored elsewhere in the script as scalars and would need to be evaluated at the time of use. How would I do something like this: 
%hash = (
                 'command1'     =>     'command_name -n $var1 -p $var2
+'
              )

$var1 = 'foo';
$var2 = 'bar';
system ($hash{'command'});

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I am looking for a way to have $var1 and $var2 be replaced with their respective values. Is this possible? Another twist, the solution would have to be compatible with Perl versions 4 and up. Why 4? Because that's what my customer uses at the moment. :-| Thanks.

In reply to possible to evaluate scalars stored in a string? by emilford

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