I have an array and I wish to use the elements in it as variable names. Basically, I am dynamically creating objects based upon the number of elements in the array. In order to differentiate between the object they obviously have to have unique names. This is where I use the data from the array.

The problem is that I am not sure how to do this, I have tried a number of mehods on my own to no avail.

Here is a little example of what I am doing. 

for (@array){
    <variable I want to create from $_> = OBJ->new;
    ... work using variable...
}

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I would also like to be able to store the newly created variable in another array for use elsewhere.

Any help is appreciated. TIA.

In reply to dynamically creating variables named after the contents of an array by gnu@perl

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