I'm trying to save myself some time and typing (isn't that the perl way?) by using a loop to declare some variables.. however, it's bombing on my telling me it's unable to deref a scalar. Any ideas what's going on? Perl is runing with -wT, using strict and CGI::Pretty.

Here's a snippet that should give you an idea of what I'm trying to achieve:

my($key);
foreach $key ("name","email","website","homeaddress","city","state","p
+hone","college","company","password") {
my(${$key}) = $query->param($key);
}

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Basically, I'm looking to avoid the following:
my($name)=$query->param("name");
my($email)=$query->param("email");

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so on and so forth.. any ideas on how to fix this nagging error, or a better way to do it? Thanks monks!

In reply to Variable Variables by marius

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