Here's a way of doing it -- but it uses package variable (i.e. globals) and, of course, you have to fully qualify them. (Or else declare them with "our").
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
my %data = ( "blah"=>1, "boo"=>2, "hoo"=>3 );
# assign each key to a package variable of the same name
foreach (keys %data) {
no strict 'refs';
${"main::$_"} = $data{$_};
} # end-foreach
# note, this causes a "used only once" warning as the symbolic referen
+ce
# above doesn't count. Irrelevant for this example.
print $main::blah;
exit;
It's still unclear what this gains you. Anytime you're resorting to symbolic references or package variables, it should be a warning sign that something isn't well thought out. There are relatively few areas where it makes sense (e.g. writing modules which manipulate the symbol table of the package that uses them.)
-xdg
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