Hello Monks

I need to create a table of widgets to display records from a database. The records will be chosen later in the program. The problem is identifying the individual widgets sdo I can insert information.Here is my code for that section:

for ($j = 1; $j < 7; $j++) {
        my $frame = $mf->Frame(-background => 'alice blue', -padx => 2
+0, -pady => 5)
                ->pack(-expand => 1, -fill => 'both', -side => 'top');
            $frame->Label(-text => $meals[$j-1], 
                        -background => 'alice blue', 
                        -width => 9)
                ->pack(-side => 'left');
            $frame->Text(-height => 6, 
                        -background => 'white', 
                        -width => 25)
                ->pack(-side => 'left');
                
            for ($i = 2; $i < 9; $i++) {
                if ($c <= 6) {++$c;}
                else {$c = 1;}
                    my $id = "\$f" . $j . $c; # Create identifier
                    $id = $frame->Text(-height => 6,
                                -background => 'white', 
                                -width => 10)
                        ->pack(-side => 'left');
                } #end for $i
        } # End for $j

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This renders the widgets beautifully, just the way I want them. The problem comes here:

$f22->insert('end', 'R2, C4');

Which results in this error: Can't call method "insert" on an undefined value.

Can I use a variable to identify the widgets? If not is there a work around? I have looked at Tk::Table but it doesn't work well for my needs.

Desperate for help. Thanks

In reply to Asssigning widget identifier by Oberbee

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