IN REGARDS TO YOUR RESPONSE: look i appreciate the help, but i dont want hash to hashes, hash to arrays, array to hashes, array to arrays, etc.. I WANT TO BE ABLE TO CONVERT 2 ARRAYS INTO 1 (1 + 1 = 1). THERE ARE OTHER FACTORS WHICH I AM NOT MENTIONING THAT COME INTO PLAY. IF YOU CAN HELP ME DO THAT I WOULD GREATLY APPRECIATE IT THANKS.

thanks for the help but perhaps i should have been more specific ( i want to push onto an array, which prevents eval from working:
my @tablenums = ('1', '2', '3');
my (@johnData, @mikeData, @harryData);
my %Tables = ( 
    '1' => "john", 
    '2' => "mike", 
    '3' => "harry", 
);
foreach (@tablenums){
   push ( eval "\@${Tables{$_}}Data",   any_data_goes_here);
}

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...thanks again

Edit by castaway - added code tags

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in thread 2 $vars 2 1 $var by jls13

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