Heynow!
I'm not sure if what I'm doing here is a reference (E-Eng trying to learn Perl on my own) so sorry if this is a waste of your time. Normally I'm able to solve my problems by using the search engine.

I'm trying to create an array name from a line of information I've found in another array. Then I would like to be able to push data into that array and print it out to a file later on.

What I think I need to do is use a reference ... but I don't think I'm doing it correctly and I'm getting lost Programming Perl: Chapter 8. I use references in Tk and other modules but I've always just learned by example

Realise I'm way off here and would appreciate help even if it's just to a page in the book or a node I should read.

Here's what I'm doing ... part of a bigger file.

Thanks,
James

scalar(@dev_list) == $#dev_list + 1;
scalar(@xref) == $#xref + 1;

for ($i=0; $i < (scalar(@dev_list)); $i++) {
  print STDOUT "Looking for $dev_list[$i]\n";
  for ($c=0;$c < (scalar(@xref)); $c++) {
    if($xref[$c] =~ /$dev_list[$i]\./i) {
      $templine = join "_","\@dev_xref",$dev_list[$i];
      $dev_array_ref = \($templine);
      push(\$dev_array_ref, $xref[$c]);
     }
   }
}

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Edit: Corrected the <code> tag. larsen

In reply to creating an array name using information from another array by Balls McWang

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