in reply to Using a varabile contained within another variable?

mitd is a very bad boy, a very bad boy is he. Quick nobody's watching
no strict 'refs'; $x = 1; $y = "x"; $$y++; print $x," bad!\n";
2 bad!

I spit 'use stricts' in your face...

mitd-Made in the Dark
'My favourite colour appears to be grey.'