That did it. Thanks Rob!
--- Rob Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >
Navid M. wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I was wondering how you can evaluate parts of a
> > string:
> >
> > Ex: $fileName = "File";
> > $var = '1>>$fileName';
> >
> > Now I would like a *simple* way of evaluating $var
> > such that only '$fileName' gets substituted for
> its
> > value. 'eval' doesn't work since it tries to
> evaluate
> > the whole thing and '1>>' doesn't evaluate to
> > anything.
>
> Eval will work if you give it a valid expression to
> evaluate.
> As you say,
>
> 1>>$fileName
>
> isn't valid Perl, but
>
> qq(1>>$fileName)
>
> is, and is what you want. To pass this as string,
> you can do this:
>
> $fileName = "File";
> $var = '1>>$fileName';
>
> $var = eval qq("$var");
> print $var, "\n";
>
> output:
>
> 1>>File
>
>
> HTH,
>
> Rob
>
>
>
>
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