#! /usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use PPI; my $perlcode = << "END_PERLCODE"; package My::L10N::en; use base 'My::L10N'; our %Lexicon = ( 'Some [_1] text' => 'Some [_1] text', ); END_PERLCODE my $doc = PPI::Document->new(\$perlcode); my $lexicon = $doc->find(sub { $_[1]->content eq '%Lexicon' }); $lexicon = $lexicon->[0]; # returns an array ref, but in my case, there's only ever one. my $newmsg = q{'The [_1] is in the [_2]'}; my $newtext = sprintf ' %s =>\n %s,', $newmsg, $newmsg; my $insert_this = PPI::Document->new(\$newtext); # insert $newtext into %Lexicon? $lexicon->insert_after($insert_this->tokens()); print $doc->serialize();