I do this all the time and have been waiting for the right guru to smack me down for doing it this way. The only pitfall to watch out for is if the first character in your dynamic variable has to be in a letter range a-zA-Z. 
So 
$wonderful = "A good Thing to behold";
$var1 = "wonder";
$var2 = "full";
$iz = $var1.$var2;
$perlmonks = $$iz;

In this sample $perlmonks is equal to 
"A good Thing to Behold";

Also if $var1 = "1sometthing";
Your script will crash.

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A note to the guru who will smack me down. Please don't
tell me this is a bad idea without saying why.
tanx.

In reply to Re: Many strings make one variable? by true
in thread Many strings make one variable? by heezy

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