Assuming the variables are declared, you can use eval ... BUT be very careful and be sure that you trust the data (i.e. that system() commands, etc can't be injected).

Basically, we want to accomplish this: 
my @time = (1, 2, 3);
my $counter = 5;
my $s = "Today is $time[1] and you have seen this $counter times!";
print "$s";

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So what we can do is this: 
my @time = (1, 2, 3);
my $counter = 5;
my $s =  'Today is $time[1] and you have seen this $counter times!';
warn $s;
warn eval "\"$s\"";
__END__
Today is $time[1] and you have seen this $counter times! at blah.pl li
+ne 4.
Today is 2 and you have seen this 5 times! at blah.pl line 5.

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In reply to Re: Parsing a string from a file by davidrw
in thread Parsing a string from a file by RayQ

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