On Wednesday, December 26, 2001, at 08:47 , Michael Still wrote:
> Hey all. I hope you had a good Christmas...
Waaaay too much white christmas.
> I have a desire to execute code embedded in perl variables.
Use "eval":
% perl
$y = 4;
$x = eval('$y++');
print "$x, $y\n";
__END__
4, 5
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