First, I must suggest using an array. That would be the most simple. Then all you would need would be:

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

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If you are DYING to use variables named $q11, etc., it is possible. However, I recently maintained a webpage that went with this method, and I was pretty close to strangling the original writing and yelling at him to learn how to use arrays (but I refrained). Anyway, enough with my story, to do that, you would need to do something like this (I think, this is untested, and I don't know what the scope will be).

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

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I do think you would be better off with an array in the end. I can not think of any good reason that you would necessarily need to have 40 seperately named variables instead of one array.

-Bryan

Update:
Removed 'my' from first example, thanks to merlyn pointing out my error.

In reply to Re: creating variables in a loop by mrborisguy
in thread creating variables in a loop by Anonymous Monk

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