No, you don't NEED to do that. You really don't. You may think that's the best way to solve your problem, but it's definitely not. It's the WORST way to solve your problem. Variable variable names (symbolic references) are a bad solution to just about every problem. And you haven't invented a new good reason. You've just come up with an other example of a bad reason to use them.

Listen to what people are telling you. Use a hash, use real first rate references. Forget that you ever thought about variable variable names. You don't need them, and shouldn't want them. Are they possible? Yes. Wise? No.


Dave

In reply to Re^3: Adding a number from scalar variable to array name by davido
in thread Adding a number from scalar variable to array name by Anonymous Monk

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