How can I create an array that holds number of variables with values?

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Simple question:
I need to initialize 20 variables($var1..$var20) to zero.

$var1=0;
$var2=0;
$var3=0;
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How do I do this with arrays in Perl?

Thanks...Mike