in reply to Contain yourselves please: THEORETICAL question about variable values being used as A PART of another variable's name.

Well you already made clear that it's normally a stupid idea, and here the foot gun:

C:>perl
$a=1;
$b1c=42;
print ${"b${a}c"};
^D
42

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Nota Bene no strict 'refs' needed

Cheers Rolf
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