On Jan 23, 2008 10:04 AM, Bryan R Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there any way to change the last statement to do what I want, which in > this case is print "perl is cool"?
Is this the kind of thing you're looking for? #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; my $message = '$who is cool'; my %includes; # ..... $includes{'who'} = 'perl'; (my $new_message = $message) =~ s/\$(\w+)/$includes{$1}/g; print "$new_message\n"; Hope this helps! --Tom Phoenix Stonehenge Perl Training -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/