You're question is a little vague - but I'm guessing the problem is that you have code somewhat like the following (which i'll use as an example):

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
 
use strict;
 
my $name = 'Alex';
my $greeting = 'Hello $name!';
 
print $greeting;
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Which you want to print 'Hello Alex', but currently it's printing 'Hello $name!'.

The following code will do this, though is perhaps a little hack-ish, and some of our more experienced monks could enlighten both of us as to a more elegant method:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
 
use strict;
 
my $name = 'Alex';
my $greeting = 'Hello $name!';
 
$greeting =~ s|\$([\w_]+)|eval "\${$1}"|e;
 
print $greeting;
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