Basically I need to do the same type of thing to several scalars with only a slight variation. Is there a simple way to use the value of one scalar to reference another? My googling has come up empty...

This code will hopefully help demonstrate what I mean. 

my @message_type=('error','alert','warning');
my ($error,$alert,$warning);
my $messages_log='/var/log/messages';

foreach (@message_type)
 {
  $($_)=`cat $messages_log |grep $_ | wc -l`;
  chomp($($_));
  $($_)=~s/ //g;
 }

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jcpunk
all code is tested, and doesn't work so there :p (varient on common PM sig for my own ammusment)

In reply to Not exactly Dereferencing... but in that ball park by jcpunk

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