In response to your second question, you don't need to eval. Use what's called a "symbolic reference" and do this: 

#          v Assign a variable name to the $result variable
my $result = "${input}_def";
return $$result if (defined ($$result));
#      ^dereferencing
return $input

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Check out perlref for more info.

BUT (big but...) you should be using "real" or "hard" references. Because in general, Symbolic refernces are just a bit too much power for us mortals to handle, because you can muck stuff up so easily. Check out perlref again, but this time look for hard references info. The truth is, you could do all of this with a hash and references. Good luck!



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In reply to Re: variables names used to define variables by jweed
in thread variables names used to define variables by Sandy

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