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Re: storing variable names in an array

by dReKurCe (Scribe)
on Jun 11, 2005 at 21:42 UTC ( [id://465854]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to storing variable names in an array

Greetings:
The following code uses refs to access the scalar variables:
our $file1 ="tom";
our $file2 = "bob";
our $file3 = "joe";
my @names =( "file1", "file2", "file3" );
$ref=\@names;
$file=$ref->[0];
print ${$file};

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