[plug] Perl Question

[Ryan]

On Mon, 2004-07-26 at 11:52, 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 .

You want to 'construct' variable names from scalar values?

$scalar1 = 'sca';
$scalar2 = 'lar3';
$scalar3 = 'blah';
$ifvariable = $scalar1 . $scalar2;
if (${$ifvariable} eq 'blah') { print "scalar3 is blah\n"; }

Is that what you mean?

Ryan