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You can also use "do 'filename.pl'". This does (excuse me) the same kind of thing as eval can and more. Similar security concerns apply though. Update<\b> See http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/do.html for more info

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Re^2: Reading and executing Perl
by jethro (Monsignor) on Apr 02, 2009 at 12:51 UTC
    'do filename' won't work here because the op doesn't have a complete perl file but random text interspersed with perl code. I don't see 'do' do any filtering.
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      No, quite right. Should have read it a bit more carefully so that I didn't miss the bit that said 'random text, not Perl'.
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