i'm not really sure what the difference is between "setVariable" and "catVariable" in your code, but how about using a hashtable?

my %vars;

open(CONF," conf.file");
while(<CONF>) {
    ($variablecmd,$variablename,$newdata) = split(/ /, $_);
    if ($variablecmd eq "setVariable") {
        $vars{$variablename} = $newdata;
} elsif ($variablecmd eq "catVariable") {
        #assign data to varaible named $variablename
        if(exists $vars{$variablename}) {
            $vars{$variablename} = $newdata;
        } else {
             die "assignment to undeclared variable";
        }
    }
}
close(CONF);

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In reply to Re: Creating new variables from the value of other variables by thraxil
in thread Creating new variables from the value of other variables by thatguy

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