Hi, Can someone help me figure out how to do nested variable resolves and evaluation of numeric operations? I am trying to make a system that stores formulas and variable values in an external file, and i want my perl script to pull in the values and the formulas, and then evaluate the formula with the variables having their values substituted into the formula. A small, representative, and problematic piece of code follows: 
my $x = 3;
my $y = "2 * $x";
my $z = eval {$y};

print '$z is: ', $z, "\n";
print 'eval of $z is: ', eval{$z}, "\n";
print 'eval of "2 * 3" is: ', eval '2 * 3', "\n";

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What I want is for the 2nd print statement to evaluate to the value '6', which the 3rd print statement does. Below is what I get:
$z is: 2 * 3
eval of $z is: 2 * 3
eval of "2 * 3" is: 6
Again, can someone help me figure out how to do nested variable resolves and evaluation of numeric operations? Thanks, Matt

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