Hi,

I'm not sure what the point of the lines scalar(@dev_list) == $#dev_list + 1; scalar(@xref) == $#xref + 1; is since == is an equality test - are these lines supposed to be comments for you?

A more perlish way to write your nested for loops would be:

for my $devitem (@dev_list) {
    print "Looking for $devitem\n";
    for my $xrefitem (@xref) {
        if ($xrefitem =~ /$devitem/i) { #Do you really need to match a
+nother character?
            #What's the next line for?
            # $templine=join "_","\@dev_xref",$dev_list[$i];
            my @{$templine}[0]=$xrefitem;
    }
}

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I'm not entirely sure that I understood what you were trying to do but you can create variables named using the contrents of another variable using the ${$varname} style syntax. But then you have to store your created variable's name so you can access it later... it might be easier to pre-dclare a hash and use the keys function.

HTH - Mark

In reply to Re: creating an array name using information from another array by maa
in thread creating an array name using information from another array by Balls McWang

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