If you are using double quotes as you indicate, there isn't an interpolation problem; am I missing something? 
my @time = (1, 2, 3);
my $counter = 5;
my $s = "Today is $time[1] and you have seen this $counter times!";
@messages=($s);
foreach $m(@messages){print "$m\n";}

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Output: 
Today is 2 and you have seen this 5 times!

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chas
(Update: Also, if I read the lines from a file using the diamond operator and push them onto @messages, it seems to work fine.)

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

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