in reply to Executing a string as a Perl command

Thanks guys,

Before creating this thread, I had made the mistake of testing it like this:

perl -e '$cmd = "$var1 = 5;";eval $cmd;print $var1'

but of course that failed because of the double quotes.  So now I've changed it to this:

perl -e '$cmd = q[$var1 = 5;];eval $cmd;print $var1'

which works just like a bought one.

Thanks for your help.

tel2

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Re^2: Executing a string as a Perl command
by johnpeterdinesh (Initiate) on May 10, 2011 at 09:22 UTC

    Please try below code

    my $cmd = '$var1 = 5';

eval "$cmd";

print $var1;

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[d/l]
      Why the double quotes? eval $cmd; works fine, no need for an additional stringification.
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[d/l]
      1. ...and your point (aside from the fact that your code prints "5") is...?
      2. ... and this is better than 

        my $var1 = 5;
print $var1;

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        how?
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[d/l]
        This short illustrative example has $cmd set inline, but in a real program, it could be constructed from other variables, it could be read from a user, it could be read from a file, etc.

        The question was simply how to get it to execute once it was set. The answer is eval.

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