Suppose you have a string with variable names in it. You want them to be expanded when you print it, but you're not sure how. Never fear, you can abuse eval()!
my $color = "red";
my $fruit = "apple";
my $name = "chromatic";
my $string = 'Hi, my name is $name. Please hand me a $color $fruit.';
print ">>$string<<\n"; # demonstrate what we have
my $s2;
eval "\$s2 = qq/$string/"; # the real magic
print "->$s2<-\n"; # demonstrate the result
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