It's ugly and unrecommended, but you can do it with eval. For instance...the following code prints out the first argument of the $string array, evaluated at run-time:

print eval('@'.$string.'[0]');

In your case, I think what you're looking for is something like:

foreach $entry ( @combined ) {
my $array = eval('\@'.$entry);
}

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You can do similar incredibly ugly and horribly unrecommended things with eval, but if it gets the job done, it does ;)

I think you can use map to do something similar (see Perl Best Practices pg. 161 "Avoid string eval") which states this kind of behavior is best avoided.

In reply to Re: Array of Arrays with Variable Names by wojtyk
in thread Array of Arrays with Variable Names by JWM

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