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in thread parsing and evaluating a string

Sorry, should have been a bit more clear. The '+' is a concat operator not a sum operator.

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Re^3: parsing and evaluating a string
by davido (Cardinal) on Apr 24, 2006 at 15:15 UTC

    Maybe this then: 

    use strict;
use warnings;
my $input = "char(123)+char(107)+char(112)+char(42)";
my $output .= chr( $_ ) foreach $input =~ m/(\d+)/g;
print "$output\n";

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