Re: Variable Substitution within NameSpace

$xx="custtype";
print "$R::$xx" ; ## but this prints only "custtype"???
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Can anybody tell me what syntax I should use for this to work?

You can do exactly what you want, but it is not a good way for CGI applications.

$xx="custtype";
print eval "\$R::$xx";

$erxx = eval "\$R::$xx";
print "R::xx = $errxx\n";
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Re^2: Variable Substitution within NameSpace by yellow_tree_frog (Initiate) on Aug 04, 2004 at 17:43 UTC
i should have specified i'm working on Windows 2000. ccn's solution below worked: `print eval "\$R::$xx";` [download] but the soln by SUNADM below only printed `::custtype`. Maybe this would have worked on a Unix based OS. `print "$R" . "::" . "$xx\n";` I will though take the advice of avoiding using symbolic references in this manner and instead will use the CGI param method. Thanks for all the help. ytf	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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print eval "\$R::$xx";
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::custtype

print "$R" . "::" . "$xx\n";