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in reply to Concatenation on Varibale Name

perldoc -q variable
How can I use a variable as a variable name?

Try a hash:

use warnings; use strict; use Data::Dumper; $Data::Dumper::Sortkeys=1; my %var; for ($a = 1; $a <= 10; $a++) { $var{'var_' . $a} = 5 + $a; } print Dumper(\%var); __END__ $VAR1 = { 'var_1' => 6, 'var_10' => 15, 'var_2' => 7, 'var_3' => 8, 'var_4' => 9, 'var_5' => 10, 'var_6' => 11, 'var_7' => 12, 'var_8' => 13, 'var_9' => 14 };

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Re^2: Concatenation on Variable Name
by dushyant (Acolyte) on Oct 17, 2012 at 17:46 UTC

    Thanks for the reply and link.