Yes, you could do that but a Perl-style loop (see Foreach Loops) might be more idiomatic than a C-style one (For Loops). In fact, for and foreach are synonymous and can both be used interchangeably for either style of loop.

$ perl -Mstrict -Mwarnings -MData::Dumper -E '
> my @names = qw{ A B C D };
> my %order;
> foreach my $name ( @names )
> {
>     $order{ $name } = $name;
> }
> print Data::Dumper->Dumpxs( [ \ %order ], [ qw{ *order } ] );'
%order = (
           'A' => 'A',
           'D' => 'D',
           'C' => 'C',
           'B' => 'B'
         );
$

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Another way to construct the hash would be to use a map instead of the foreach.

$ perl -Mstrict -Mwarnings -MData::Dumper -E '
> my @names = qw{ A B C D };
> my %order = map { $_ => $_ } @names;
> print Data::Dumper->Dumpxs( [ \ %order ], [ qw{ *order } ] );'
%order = (
           'A' => 'A',
           'D' => 'D',
           'C' => 'C',
           'B' => 'B'
         );
$

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I hope this is helpful.

Cheers,

JohnGG

In reply to Re^3: Variable as name of array by johngg
in thread Variable as name of array by Hopfi

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