I have a string that contains the value of the variable name of an array... 
@list1 = ("one","two","three","four");
@list2 = ("four","three","two","one");
$name = "list1";

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Is there a quick way to reference the array given the string? (Assume there are multiple arrays and the sting can contain the name of any of them...) I can fairly easlily do an 'if' check and then utilize a reference to the array based on a match, but it seems like there should be a more direct way of accessing the array. The following works just fine, but isn't very elegant: 
@list1 = ("one","two","three","four");
@list2 = ("four","three","two","one");
$name = "list1";

if ($name eq "list1") {
    $list_ref = \@list1;
} elsif ($name eq "list2") {
    $list_ref = \@list2;
}
foreach $item (@{$list_ref}) {
    print "$item\n";
}

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In reply to Array name contained within a string by AndyB216

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