I am lost in how to "variablize" this.

Working code: 

use strict;
use Spreadsheet::WriteExcel;
    
my $workbook   = Spreadsheet::WriteExcel->new("demo.xls");
my $worksheet_BOB = $workbook->add_worksheet('BOB');
my $worksheet_SUE = $workbook->add_worksheet('SUE');
$worksheet_BOB->write('A2', "Bob is here");
$worksheet_SUE->write('A2', "Sue is here");
__END__

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What I want do do is make the _BOB a variable and loop through and array to build the worksheets. and then be able to reference the writes with the variable names.Below may not be syntactically correct but functional what I want to do 

use strict;
use Spreadsheet::WriteExcel;
    
my $workbook   = Spreadsheet::WriteExcel->new("demo.xls");

my @PEOPLE = ("BOB" , "SUE", "JOHN" );

foreach (@PEOPLE) { 

my $worksheet_$_ = $workbook->add_worksheet('$_');
}
$NAME = "BOB"
$worksheet_$NAME->write('A2', "$NAME is here");

$NAME= "SUE"
$worksheet_$NAME->write('A2', "$NAME is here");

__END__

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In reply to variable in variables by ohgary

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