For fun,

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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can be rewritten as

{
   no strict 'refs';
   while (@data = $sth1->fetchrow_array()) {
      for (my $field = 0; $field <= $#data ; $field++) {
         my $var_name = 'field' . ($field+1);
         push(@$var_name, $data[$field]);
      }
   }
}

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to eliminate the costly eval. You lose the ability to write to lexicals (my vars), although using those is just asking for trouble in this scenario.

A here's version (with the same caveat as the previous one) that works without (even partially) turning off strict:

my $pkg = \%::;
$pkg = $pkg->{$_.'::'} foreach (split(/::/, __PACKAGE__));

while (@data = $sth1->fetchrow_array()) {
   for (my $field = 0; $field <= $#data ; $field++) {
      push(@{$pkg->{'field' . ($field+1)}}, $data[$field]);
   }
}

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Symtab manipulation is so much fun!

In reply to Re^2: declaring arrays dynamically by ikegami
in thread declaring arrays dynamically by db2admin

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