You could do something like:

my @list = qw/foo bar baz/;
foreach my $element (@list) {
  *{$element} = sub {
    $state{$element} = 1;
  };
  *{"${element}_"} = sub {
    $state{$element} = 0;
  };
}

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If you are using strict {insert standard admonition here} you'd need to use:

no strict 'refs';

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in the loop, I believe.

On another note, without knowing just what your goal is, there is likely another XML module that might do more of what you need for you. A search at search.cpan.org for "XML" returns over 2000 matches. :)

UPDATE: Added the missing semi-colons. Thanks to esh for pointing out they were missing. :)

- Matt Riffle

In reply to Re: generating subroutines from array variables by mattriff
in thread generating subroutines from array variables by Anonymous Monk

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