Having just needed something along these lines, and after reading through the
Dreaming of Post Interpolation thread, I think I've settled on using something like this:
@lines = <<TEXT_INFO;
Dear \$person,
I know that this text is \$adjective.
But I wish it could be...
This is a test of imbedded variables
I want to set \\\$variable later, and then have it interepreted when
+ printed
variable was set to \$variable
TEXT_INFO
$variable = 5;
my $person = 'Mom';
my $adjective = 'not interpolated';
foreach $line (@lines) {
print eval "qq{$line}";
}
-Scott