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>>I really do believe that you already realize that this is dangerous and were just offering it as a "well, if that's really what you want to do then this is how you do it..." kind of thing. >>

Yep. I just want to stress, I don't recomend that the questioner actually use this, I just meant it as exactly what you said. The reason I didn't provide the additional info was the fear that the questioner would actually use it : )

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(bbfu) (soft-refs again) Re(4): Spliting letters in a string
by bbfu (Curate) on May 08, 2001 at 05:13 UTC

    Well, if you're going to shoot yourself in the foot, you might as well do it elegantly. ;-)

    I also think it is a very bad idea for people to go around using soft references like that. That's why I posted my array suggestion below (and why I felt compelled to mention that it was a bad idea; out loud, as it were). Besides the danger of overwriting someone else's (or your own!) variables, there's the simple fact that, once you're done creating all those variables, you won't know which they were! :-)

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