Perhaps you look for something like reset

reset deletes symbols starting with a specific letter. tr-like ranges can be used.

reset $foo is similar (but not at all equal) to

for (grep /^[$foo]/, keys %::) {
    undef @$_;
    undef %$_;
    undef $$_;
}
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