hello all,

i'm writing a bit of experimental code and i've run into 
an interesting wall.  how does one retrieve the characters
IN the scalar, array, or hash name?  ie:  how do i get 
the "example" in $example ( or @example / %example )?

i've been reading through programming perl ( 2nd + 3rd  editions ).  
i can automagically generate hashes on the 
fly using symbolic references, but cannot seem to pull 
the text of the name back out.

i suspect that i can do it through the symbol table, but 
i don't understand all of that aspect of perl yet.

also, this is not about solving a programming problem...
it's something that i became interested in while researching
something else.  ( i got around it by keeping a list of
what was automagically built.  :)

thanks,

moo

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