[plug] Perl Question

[Bernard Blackham]

On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 11:52:07AM +0800, Patrick Tehvand wrote:
> I may be making things to complex for myself but is there a way to join 
> two scalar values to give the name of a scalar?
> 
> my brain says litteraly it should be:
> 
> $ifvariable = $scalar1 . $scalar2;
> if ($"$ifvariable" eq blah) {
> 
> I know above doesnt work. nether does adding a $ to the "$ifvariable" 
> using .

I think you're probably looking for an eval block, eg:

$a = 'foo';
$b = 'bar';

eval "\$$a$b = 'blah'";

print $foobar."\n";

HTH,

Bernard.

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 Bernard Blackham <bernard at blackham dot com dot au>