I have a survey that is 40 questions in length. All of them are arrays and look like q1 q2 q3 ... q10 q11 q12... upto q40.

So the variable I want to create will look like my $q1, my $q2 and so on and so on. And the params are identical, they are also param("q1"), param("q2), etc. I don't want to hard code every bloody variable in there and was wondering if this could be done by a loop to create and assign all of these variables?

I was thinking something like 

my $cnt = 0;
for ( 1 .. 40)
{
   $cnt++;
   my $q$cnt = param("q$cnt");
}

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But under strict, the variables would only be accessibly until the loop is over. Can anyone come up with a way to do this?

In reply to creating variables in a loop by Anonymous Monk

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