Dear Monks,

What is the best way to to combine variables to create one virtual variable? For example with the following piece of code I don't want to have to repeat this statement 4 times because the amout of Perl code generated becomes difficult to manage. If possible I want the code to make it obvious that we are dealing with a fusion of two variable names. So, for example,  $sth_Count_Ref_vs_Comp.$letter_tag Then I just need to change the letter tag within a loop. 
      
      
      my $sth_Count_Ref_vs_Comp = $dbh_B->prepare($sql_count_A_Ref_vs_
+Comp) or die "Cannot prepare: " . $dbh_B->errstr();
      $sth_Count_Ref_vs_Comp->execute() or die "$sth_Count_Ref_vs_Comp
+->errstr\n";    
      
      my $sth_Count_Ref_vs_Comp_B = $dbh_B->prepare($sql_count_A_Ref_v
+s_Comp_B) or die "Cannot prepare: " . $dbh_B->errstr();
      $sth_Count_Ref_vs_Comp_B->execute() or die "$sth_Count_Ref_vs_Co
+mp_B->errstr\n";    
      
      my $sth_Count_Ref_vs_Comp_C = $dbh_B->prepare($sql_count_A_Ref_v
+s_Comp_C) or die "Cannot prepare: " . $dbh_B->errstr();
      $sth_Count_Ref_vs_Comp_C->execute() or die "$sth_Count_Ref_vs_Co
+mp_C->errstr\n";    
      
      my $sth_Count_Ref_vs_Comp_D = $dbh_B->prepare($sql_count_A_Ref_v
+s_Comp_D) or die "Cannot prepare: " . $dbh_B->errstr();
      $sth_Count_Ref_vs_Comp_D->execute() or die "$sth_Count_Ref_vs_Co
+mp_D->errstr\n";

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