Thank's Juerd,

I decided to use this approach:

    $replace = qq["$replace"];
    $content =~ s/$find/eval $replace/es;
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Wouldn't say it's pretty, but it solves the issue at hand (being: to provide a quick internal utility to patch some 100+ SOAP envelopes for automated testing of a webservice).

Best regards,
Allan

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