First, as tachyon says, I'm quite curious how you've gotten this information into all these variables, and why you didn't just put them into a hash to begin with. But assuming that's done by somebody else in code you don't control...

You're approaching the problem backwards. Instead of taking a variable and getting the name out, take the name and turn it into a variable, with a symbolic reference. Something like this should work, though I haven't tested it: 

foreach my $i (qw(foo1 foo2 foo3 ... foon))
{
  $hash{$i} = $$i;
}

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In reply to Re^3: getting the name of a variable to use as string by sgifford
in thread getting the name of a variable to use as string by pmneve

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