Essentially, in my code, I must create a few arrays, each with different names.

Then your code suffers from mis-design. Please back up a step and ask yourself why you needed to do that. If you do that properly (maybe backing up a few steps if needed), then you'll no longer need to do that.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker
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