in reply to Form letters: eval a string to substutite perl variables

I would highly recommend using Template Toolkit. TT makes this kind of stuff trivial, and handles layout much better than a homegrown solution.

TT is not just for HTML.

Template can be as easy as: 

Dear [% salutation %] [% last_name %],

You may have won 1 million dollars.

Thanks,

[download]


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