Hi listanand,

Here's one way you could do it with a reference to a hash of array refs: 

use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;

my @array_names = qw (a b c d e f);
my $h_arrays    = { };

for my $name (@array_names) {
    $h_arrays->{$name} = [ $name ];
}

printf "I've now got these arrays in \$h_arrays:  %s\n", Dumper($h_arr
+ays);

__END__
Output:
I've now got these arrays in $h_arrays:  $VAR1 = {
          'e' => [
                   'e'
                 ],
          'c' => [
                   'c'
                 ],
          'a' => [
                   'a'
                 ],
          'b' => [
                   'b'
                 ],
          'd' => [
                   'd'
                 ],
          'f' => [
                   'f'
                 ]
        };

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I'm fond of hash references, so I'd do it that way.  More simply, though, you could use a hash (instead of hash references), containing the array references: 
use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;

my @array_names = qw (a b c d e f);
my %arrays      = ( );

for my $name (@array_names) {
    $arrays{$name} = [ $name ];
}

printf "I've now got these arrays:  %s\n", Dumper(\%arrays);

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In reply to Re: Creating Arrays Dynamically by liverpole
in thread Creating Arrays Dynamically by listanand

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