How do I tell Perl to execute a piece of generated perl code?

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I am trying to catch the string "cd /a/b/c" and do the following conversion (as part of a larger perl program).

If "cd /a/b/c" exists then convert" cd /a/b/c --> chdir '/a/b/c' execute "chdir '/a/b/c' "

I can do the conversion; I cant tell PERL to execute my PERL command...

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