On Jan 23, 2008 2:17 PM, Gunnar Hjalmarsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bryan R Harris wrote: > > Is there any way to change the last statement to do what I want, which in > > this case is print "perl is cool"? > > > > ************************************** > > $a='$b is cool'; > > > > ... bunch of stuff here... > > > > $b = "perl"; > > > > print $a, "\n";' > > print eval qq("$a"), "\n"; snip
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