hi,

i'm new to perl and i need some serious help to eliminate some long coding. here is a snippet that i use along with a subroutine to capture form input:

$a = $in{'a'};
$b = $in{'b'};
$c = $in{'c'};
$d = $in{'d'};
.
.
.

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you get the point. and it becomes very long. here is my idea:
$fieldList = $in{'fieldList'};
@fieldList = split(",",$fieldList);
foreach $field(@fieldList){
     $$field = $in{'$field'};
}

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$filedList holds a list of all the fields it a form (a,b,c,...), but it doesn't work. i'm i being greedy? stupid? or just a newbie? HELP!

Edit: chipmunk 2001-05-30

In reply to variables for variables by BigVic

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