in reply to Re: Re: Re: how to dynamically declare a varialble?
in thread how to dynamically declare a varialble?

Well it depends on what do you do. If you have code like this: 

if (/regexp/) {
 no strict 'refs';
 my $i = 1;
 while (defined ${$i}) {
   ...
 }
}

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then it's definitely better (and fairly easy) to change the code and assign the matches into an array. If you have something like: 
$text =~ s{regexp}{
 no strict 'refs';
 my $i = 1;
 while (defined ${$i}) {
   ...
 }
 ...
}ge;

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it ain't that trivial.

Jenda
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: how to dynamically declare a varialble?
by dragonchild (Archbishop) on May 24, 2004 at 16:27 UTC
    Show me an example of the second and I'll show you how to rewrite it. The second sounds like someone trying to be too clever.

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