Hello smknjoe,

As stevieb has shown, a hash is a much better option here. But, for the record, you need no strict 'refs' only if you’re not using eval — in which case, you also have to use package global variables (see perlref#Symbolic-references):

use strict;
use warnings;

our (@table_min_1, @table_min_2, @table_max_1, @table_max_2, $array_na
+me);

while (<DATA>)
{
    chomp;

    if (/Array\s+(\w+)\s+(\d+)/)
    {
        $array_name = 'table_' . $1 . '_' . $2;
    }
    else
    {
        no strict 'refs';
        my @fields = split /\s+/;
        push @$array_name, $fields[1];
    }
}

print "\n";
print "$_ " for @table_max_1, @table_max_2, @table_min_1, @table_min_2
+;
print "\n";

__DATA__
...
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On the other hand, if you are using eval, you can use strict without qualification, along with my lexicals:

use strict;
use warnings;

my (@table_min_1, @table_min_2, @table_max_1, @table_max_2, $array_nam
+e);

while (<DATA>)
{
    chomp;

    if (/Array\s+(\w+)\s+(\d+)/)
    {
        $array_name = '@table_' . $1 . '_' . $2;
        #              ^
    }
    else
    {
        my @fields = split /\s+/;
        eval qq(push $array_name, "$fields[1]");
    }
}

print "\n";
print "$_ " for @table_max_1, @table_max_2, @table_min_1, @table_min_2
+;
print "\n";

__DATA__
...
[download]

Note the additional @ in the second example. In both cases, the output is as desired:

15:43 >perl 1283_SoPW.pl

a b c 1 2 3 d e f 4 5 6

15:43 >
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But, again, don’t do that! :-)

Hope that helps,

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