On Sat, 2008-10-04 at 21:26 +0200, Manfred Lotz wrote: > my $who = "my friend"; > my $w = q(This is \n $who.);
#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; my $who = "my friend"; my $w = q(This is \n $who.); my $text = ''; eval qq{\$text = "$w";}; die $@ if $@; print "$text\n"; __END__ If you have `my $text = eval $w;` then $@ will contain soemthing like 'syntax error at (eval 1) line 2, at EOF' Always check $@ immediately after eval -- Just my 0.00000002 million dollars worth, Shawn Linux is obsolete. -- Andrew Tanenbaum -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/