Update: As jdporter mentioned above, there needs to be another level of abstraction - using the words as the name of each hash is polluting the namespace and asking for trouble.

That being said, are you already reading this information into a hash? If so, keys is what you need.

If you aren't already populating a hash with this, something like this should get you started:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

my @keys;
{
    my $glossary = 'gloss'; #filename containing the hash
    package Glossary;
    do $glossary or die "Error doing $glossary: $!";
    @keys = keys %Glossary::;
}
print join "\n", @keys;

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Note - if the file contains malicious code, it will be executed. If you use this in production, use Safe.pm and rdo to allow only trusted code to execute.

In reply to Re: Passing hash names in a file by jsprat
in thread Passing hash names in a file by heezy

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