If you don't mind letting your arrays have package scope, you can use soft references like this: 
use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;

my @tablenums = ('1', '2', '3');
our (@johnData, @mikeData, @harryData);
my @any = ("any", "data", "goes", "here");

my %Tables = (
'1' => "john",
'2' => "mike",
'3' => "harry",
);

foreach (@tablenums){
    no strict 'refs';
    push @{"$Tables{$_}Data"}, @any;
}

print Dumper(\(@johnData, @mikeData, @harryData));

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Further reading: Symbolic references

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
-- Isaac Newton

In reply to Re: 1 $var 2 2$vars part 2 by Arunbear
in thread 2 $vars 2 1 $var by jls13

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