Ok, I’m an extreme newb, I don’t use my Perl projects on a server for anyone other then myself and I honestly usually just get by with my "while" and "if" statements

However, I’ve run into a problem that if and while statements would be very messy at.

say I have a variable like $foobar and $foobar holds x^4-3 or even x+3 I’m wondering if there’s a way I can have Perl evaluate this and give me the result... I think it has to do with the eval function but I tried this simple code and it didn’t work...


$question="4+3";

eval {$answer=$question;};
print "$question=$answer";

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the result is 4+3=4+3... not exactly what I need...

Any and all help would be greatly appreciated, also I need it to do it using bedmas, I don’t know if it does by default or not

Edit by castaway added code tags

In reply to using eval by Anonymous Monk

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