Re^3: updating a variable call in a hash table

[gnosti]

Is there no simple way to do this w/o invoking a module?

Sure there is!

$sentence = q("The next color is $color.");

$color = q(blue);

print eval $sentence; 

You can learn how to be lazy later :-)

Note: There can be security implications if $color is supplied by user input.

[AnomalousMonk]

Note: There can be security implications if $color is supplied by user input.

Famous last words!

[shmem]

No need for eval.

$sentence = sub { "The next color is ". shift };
$color = q(blue);

print $sentence->($color);

[coopermc]

Aha, that is what I was after. Thank you.