Rob,

Thanks for the update. I don't have time to look at it currently, but a perl rules engine sounds interesting.

It looks like you need something to interpolate your string. So, something like changing your print routine to include an eval of the string?

I don't think the code below works, but may prove helpful? You may also find yourself doing a search on the returned string to fill in values... blech. 

$string =~ s/\$(\w+)/ ${$1} /xeg;

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orig: 
                print " ----------------- " . $ref->{attribute} . "\n"

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new: 
my $string = $ref->{attribute};
my $output = eval $string;
if($@){
  die "problem with eval: $@";
}
 print " ----------------- $output\n";

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In reply to Re^3: Extending Perl::PIE - how to have Perl snippets executed ? by spazm
in thread Extending Perl::PIE - how to have Perl snippets executed ? by Anonymous Monk

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