A perl question

[brian]

Maybe someone can help?

Okay, so I'm trying to do something in perl, a "sort of" mail merge kind
of concept.

I have a block of text, something like:
"Blah blah blah blah ::company foo foo foo foo ::address"

I also have a bunch of variables populated with data ($company,
$address, $city, $state, $etc...)

I want to replace the "::tag" in the text block with the value of the
corresponding variable.  Ie: if $tag="SomeText" everytime I find ::tag
in the text block I want to remove ::tag and replace it with SomeText.

Every s/ operation I come up with always ends up replacing ::tag with
the literal "$tag".

Anybody can maybe point me in the right direction?

Thanks.
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brian <lists at karas.net>