dHarry's reply to printig with variables in text suggested (at least to my mind) that a HERE-doc could be set up to do an eval-like interpolation of things in a string that look like scalars; i.e., if the string 'all $foo the $bar way' were interpolated from a file into a HERE-doc, some HERE-doc mechanism could then be invoked to further interpolate $foo and $bar (assuming they were already defined in the script) rather than using a subsequent eval step, which is the only way I can see to do this sort of thing.

Exists there such HERE-doc magic, or am I just enjoying a beautiful dream?

Update:

I should have included the sentence dHarry wrote that piqued my interest:

One way to do it is to inline the file in a HEREDOC, the variables will be interpolated. (Maybe not the most elegant solution but I used it to good effect in QED solutions.)

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