I have 5 name and 5 email fields named fname1, fname2, fname3 and so on and fmail1, fmail2, fmail3 and so on. Instead of breaking down and creating three 5 large email sections, I thought throwing it into a loop would make more sense.

For some reason, it's not liking me appending $cnt to the variables because it errors out with 

Global symbol "$fmail" requires explicit package name at raf.pl line 9
+2.
syntax error at raf.pl line 92, near "$fmail$cnt "
Global symbol "$fmail" requires explicit package name at raf.pl line 9
+5.
Global symbol "$fname" requires explicit package name at raf.pl line 9
+8.

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Since $fmail doesn't exist and neither does $fname, the script fails. Does anyone know how I can fix this problem? 
   my $cnt = 0;
   for (1 .. 5)
   {
      $cnt++;
      if ($fmail$cnt ne "")
      {
         open(MAIL,"| $sendmail") or die "Can't open sendmail $!";
         print MAIL "To: $fmail$cnt\n";
         print MAIL "From: $email\n";
         print MAIL "Subject: Refer A Friend\n";
         print MAIL "Dear $fname$cnt,\n\n";
         print MAIL "Your friend, $name at $email, visited out site re
+cently and thought you would be interested..\n\n";
         print MAIL "This is NOT spam. This email was sent by someone 
+who said they knew you.  Your email address is not stored in any data
+bases and will not 

be sold or given to anyone at any time.  This is the only time you wil
+l receive an email from us.";
         close(MAIL);
      }

   }

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In reply to $var$cnt problems by Anonymous Monk

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