Hi all. Is it possible to use a defined variable in defining another variable? See example below, which is not working.

$ecounter=0;
         my @file_line_contents = split (/\|/,$_); 
         while "$ecounter < 45" {
             $e$ecounter=length($file_line_contents[$ecounter]);
             $ecounter+=1;
         }

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I tried concatenating the variables and that did not work either. Code is probably ugly but should convey basically what I am trying to do.

Thanks in advance

Update

I am doing validation of data. I have a file of records with 46 elements in each record. I need to validate the length of each element as well as do some content validation. This is why I was creating a variable containing the length for each. Is there a better way?

Thanks for pointing out the syntax errors. I'm not surprised. I did not check that before posting question. Just wanted to get the idea across.

In reply to Using a variable to define a variable by insta.gator

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