Re: Re-Interpolating a Scalar (a string)

Alright -- I am sorry to waste your time -- I have already figured it out!

$raw = '$parsed = "fred has $color eyes";';

eval $raw;

print $parsed;
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Sorry for the false alarm. :)

-Nich

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Re^2: Re-Interpolating a Scalar (a string) by friedo (Prior) on Jul 29, 2005 at 18:34 UTC
While this will work fine, it's probably not a good idea. Especially if you don't know ahead of time what's going to be in `$raw`, any malicious code that gets put there will be `eval`ed by your program. Further, string eval is quite slow from what I hear. Instead, I would highly reccomend using the hash lookup method provided by cmeyer above.	[reply]
Re^2: Re-Interpolating a Scalar (a string) by Joost (Canon) on Jul 29, 2005 at 18:33 UTC
Unless you can guarantee that $color is always a string without meta characters, this is safer: `$raw = '$parsed = "fred has \Q$color\E eyes";'; eval $raw; print $parsed;` [download] "What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"	[reply] [d/l]