Curious about executing within quotes? 2

[ejaggers]

Since Perl has many ways to do things, can you execute something in quotes?

i.e. print “I am curious about executing”, &ThisFunction(), “within quotes\n”;

Works fine, but is there a way to do this:
print “I am curious about executing &ThisFunction() within quotes\n”;

 

[Kirsle]

printf("I am curious about executing %s within quotes\n", &ThisFunction());

maybe

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perl -e '$|=$i=1;print" oo\n<|>\n_|_";x:sleep$|;print"\b",$i++%2?"/":"_";goto x;'

 

[KevinADC]

Yes, although it can make code harder to read and maintain. Here is one example:

print "I am curious about executing @{[ThisFunction()]} within quotes\n";

sub ThisFunction {
    return "a function";
}

That is pretty much straight out of the perl FAQs:

http://perldoc.perl.org/perlfaq4.html#How-do-I-expand-function-calls-in-a-string?

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[ejaggers]

Yeah KevinADC, you're right about harder to maintain, but I figured there was a way.....Thanks