To do this, you would need a piece of code like this:

#!/usr/bin/perl
my ($i, @hasharray, $x);
# create an array of hashnames (hash0..hash9)
for ($i=0; $i<10; $i++)
{
    push @hasharray, "hash$i";
}
$i = 10;
foreach (@hasharray)
{
    $x = $_;
    #assign key "key" and value "value$i" to %hashx
    $$x{key} = "value$i"; 
    $i++;
}

print "$hash7{key}\n"; #would print "value17"

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But don't use strict or -w here! Strict would prevent using a string as a hashref ($$x{key} = "value$i") and -w would warn us that %hash7 was used only once...

So you see, it is possible, but I think it's not wise...

HTH

Jouke Visser, Perl 'Adept'

In reply to RE: Re: dynamically creating the name of a hash key-name by Jouke
in thread dynamically creating the name of a hash key-name by vipinh

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