PERL creating variable names with other variable values.

Hello All,

Thanks for everyones responses private and on the list.
I like to end the thread with a solution incase anyone searches the
archives.
So here it is:-

${dec."$day"} = blah blah ;

the curly braces tell perl where the variable NAME starts and ends, adding
the dot and the double quote marks adds the VALUE of $day to the $dec NAME.
So if $day = 12;
then
${dec."$day"} == $dec12;

I'm also looking at arrays and hashes as an alternative.

Many Thanks
Peter Newton



I hope I can make this question clear, I'm trying to create (using PERL) a
number of variables using a loop and a count so that I can use the count
value to append to the variable name like so:

for ($day=1; $day <= 31; ++$day) {
 $dec1 = ........ blah blah;
}

But I want the variable $dec1 to go to $dec2 etc each time round the loop.
using $day to append the appropriate digit to the variable name $dec.

I've tried:-
 $dec$day
"$dec"."$day"
etc etc

I'm sure I've done this before but cannot find anything.
Can anyone help??

many thanks
Peter Newton

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