In emacs can you evaluate an elisp expression and replace it with the result?

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Published on 2010-06-14T06:29:42Z Indexed on 2010/06/14 6:32 UTC
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For example if I have the text:

Sum of items is (+ 1 2 3)

I want to move to the end of the line, evaluate the expression and replace it with the result, so that it reads:

Sum of items is 6

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