Hiya my brothers!

This is really a matter curiousity as much as anything.
I have a bunch of scalar variables I want to set to certain values. Call them:

my ($a, $b, $c, $d);

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I've made a subroutine that figures out what those values should be, and puts them in a hash:
my %hash = ( 'a' => 'apple, 'b' => 'banana', 'c' => 'cantaloupe', 'd' 
+=> 'dice', );

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Now, I realize I could simply use the hash in my program, or any number of other solutions, but really I'm just kindof wondering if there is an elegant way to simply iterate through the keys of that hash and assign the variable name, indicated in the key, to the value? So my goal is that $a eq 'apple', for example.??

In reply to Trying to automate some scalar assignments by Anonymous Monk

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