On Wednesday, September 24, 2003, at 03:04 pm, Simon Wistow wrote:
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 12:32:24PM +0000, Martin Bower said:Can anyone point me inthe right direction, on how to get variable names
stored in __DATA__ to be evaluated ?
you could do something like
my $data = join "", <DATA>; eval "\$date = \"$data\";";
which is icky but works
Doesn't work when $data contains any double quotes.
Ideally, perl would have an evalqq function to do this sort of thing.
