It's generally considered "bad form" to call sed or awk from perl, as Perl for the most part supercedes both of them. For instance, your example could be expressed as:

$haha =~ s/tyre/tire/g;
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Also, as part of the standard perl distribution, there'a a2p and s2p, the awk-to-perl and sed-to-perl translators, respectively.