in reply to look up the symbol table of a variable

For example, for main:
foreach my $name (sort keys %{*main::}){ print "Symbol '$name'\n"; }
chas
(Update: Using BUU's construction if the name is in a variable.
Update 2: That construction seemed fine when $package="main", but doesn't seem right for cases such as $package="HTML::Parser", when the :: appears. For such cases, tlm's construction seems to give the desired result.)