I'm painfully aware of all the available templating systems on CPAN. However, You're looking at the complete extent of my use, and I didn't think I'd need to use an entire Template system in order to expand a few vars.

While i could turn off warnings, I thought it best to first see if there was a "proper" way to resolve the warning from being printed. Should I assume that the only way around this type of warning is to disable it in some fashion? That may be entirely possible, but that's all i wanted to find out.

thanks for the tip on disableing just that type of warning