Thanks for the style tip. Yes, started out in C and I'm still getting used to thinking in perl.

As far as the array names, they were used for ease of input for this problem only. Their real names look like: $high_price, $low_price, etc.

As to what I want to achieve; the data I'm reading in consists of a file with many different sets of input all smashed together. Ten years of a stock's high price then ten years of a stock's low price and then ten years of a stock's something else, etc. I figured that using an array with the elements in order of their appearance in the data would make it easy for me to get to by reading the index of the array and multiplying by 10 (number of years) and then doing a loop to add the data into the hash ($high_price{1995}=52.50).

I'm writing my first, uh, program with perl. I'm a system administrator and I live off of one-liners and one-off scripts, so my ability to do this in perl is being stretched.

Again, thanks for your help,
- chris

In reply to Re: Re: Interpolating an array element as a hash name. by yam
in thread Interpolating an array element as a hash name. by yam

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