Hello Perl Monks:


I was wondering if there was a way to do this (you will get the idea when you see the code - if not, I'll explain below):


#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict "vars" ;
my $data ;
my @splitter ;
$data = "testval,1" ;
@splitter = split( "," , $data ) ;
my $$splitter[ 0 ] = $splitter[ 1 ] ;

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I know you can do something like this with hashes, but I don't want to use hashes. Here's the gist of what I am trying to do with this code. I have data (defined here as $data, but will be in a file). It is comma-separated. The first value in this data is the actual variable name I want to define. The second value is the value I want to assign to it. Obviously, assigning the value is easy, but creating the variable is not so easy. The $$ makes sense in terms of real-time substitution, however it doesn't work. Perl is interpreting it to mean something other than a string declaration. The error message given is:


Can't declare scalar dereference in "my" at srtest line 7, near "$spli
+tter["
syntax error at srtest line 7, near "$splitter["
srtest had compilation errors.

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Any ideas of how to make this work?


Statue

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