Executing text

[paulacocacola]

Hello, I've never used Perl but I'm going to do a project where i will need to read a text and execute it. Meaning the program should be able to receive (for example) the text :Print 'Hello World'; and do execute(Print 'Hello World'). After that, I'll need to receive a function (in plain text), and be able to execute it (may have parameters). Does anyone know how can i start to do this? Where should i begin? thanks

[duff]

Read at least the following perl documentation:

• perldoc -f do
• perldoc -f eval
• perldoc perlsec

[BazB]

As duff suggests, you should read perlsec.
Just to stress the point: accepting input from an untrusted source - especially when that input will be eval'ed by perl - can be a serious security hole.

Imagine if the input was `rm -rf /`...

[Arbogast]

Sounds like you want to learn the eval command in Perl, and might want to take a look at Text::Template.