Other replies are right on the nose, you probably want an array of arrays. However, if there is some reason you can't do that (though I can't imagine why not): 
while (@data = $sth1->fetchrow_array()) {
    for (my $field = 0; $field <= $#data ; $field++) {
        my $var_cnt = $field+1; #needed for cat in next line to work
        eval('push @field'.$var_cnt.', $data['.$field.'];');
    }
}

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That would generate @field1, @field2,... @fieldn for the width of your row. Using an array of arrays or even a hash would work better. A hash method: 
my %results;
while ($data = $sth1->fetchrow_hashref) {
    foreach (keys %$data) {
        push $reults{$_}, $$data{$_};
    }
}

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%results is now a hash of arrays. $results{degree} contains an array of all values for the field "degree" in your table. These can be extracted by: 
foreach (keys %results) {
   print "Results for column $_:\n";
   foreach (@{$results{$_}}) {
     print " $_\n";
   }
}

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Or something like it.
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In reply to Re: declaring arrays dynamically by radiantmatrix
in thread declaring arrays dynamically by db2admin

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