greetings monks I have a bit of a quandry in a program I am writing I need to be able to read data from a flat file into some scalars, but once i began to approach the problem my only idea left me with the name of my scalar in side of a scalar with no idea what to do with it.

i shall try to explain that again so that i am hopefully more clear. i have a file with data in it like $data = stuff. and i need to figure out how to assign stuff to $data without knowing it is $data that i am processing but knowing that the thing to the left of the equals sign is $data.

i could have a giant long sent of if statements but i would rather not do that as i have about 100 or so things to read in from this file every time my front end for the script begins, which while not frequently is occasional enough that i would rather not do it that way (and it would take a hell of a lot of time to code in)

so does anyone have an elegant solution or do i begin coding ifs?
thanks for your time
jcpunk

all code is tested, and doesn't work so there :p (varient on common PM sig for my own ammusment)

In reply to dynamic scalar names? by jcpunk

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