Hi,

I'm using Perl to scan a text file with contents somewhat resembling this:

User:
Messages:message1,message2,message3
Color1:
Color2:

And I've already got all the messages in @messages.
Problem is, @messages can have strings like "Today is $time[1] and you have seen this $counter times!" or something.
In my script, I've declared all the vars (in this example, @time and $counter are declared). But when I print that $message via a loop, it doesnt interpolate $counter or $time[1], it just prints them in plaintext =(
I'm printing them like this:
foreach $message(@messages)
{
    print "$message<br />";
}

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But it still doesnt, even with " and not '. Any idea what I might do? I saw some replacing (I think it was s/\$(\w+)/$$1/ or something) but "use strict" doesnt allow it, and it doesnt work at all even without strict exiting the program D=

In reply to Parsing a string from a file by RayQ

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