I need to read data from a small comma delimited text file, and have the data stored in a series of arrays (one for each field.) Each record needs to be accessible in the form $fieldname[$recordnumber] Instead of having to write 
while (<DATA>) {
($name[$b],$address[$b],$city[$b],…) = split /\,/,$_;
etc...
$b++;
}

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I would like to be able to store the variable names in an array, ie. 
@varnames =(‘name’,’address’,’city’,…)

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and then somehow use this array of names to work with the split command in the same way as above. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

In reply to Using variable names from an array by yams

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