This is a greatly simplified script (that doesn't do anything here) used to report webpage hits. The honorable Monks stress the use of strict but I am confused about what to do in a situation where variables are created on the fly (as in the first 'for' loop) and then used in the second 'for' loop. It all works fine if I don't use strict. The page names to be tracked are not known until the data file is read. 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
my $datafile = "data.txt";
my @now = localtime(time);

open(FIL,"<$datafile") or die "Can't open data file: $!\n";
my @data = <FIL>;
close(FIL);

my %maxCount;
foreach my $line (@data) {
    (my $timestamp, my $page, my $moredata) = split('\|',$line);
    my @hits = localtime($timestamp);
    # Here I create and preset an array with a variable name defined b
+y $page
    @$page = (0,0,0,0) if ($$page[3] eq '');
    if ($hits[7] == $now[7]) { $$page[0]++; }
    if ($hits[4] == $now[4]) { $$page[1]++; }
    if ($hits[5] == $now[5]) { $$page[2]++; }
    $maxCount{'$page'}++;
}

my @pages = keys %maxCount; # Gets list of page names 
my $dAry = "";  my $wAry = "";  my $mAry = "";
foreach my $page (@pages) {
    $dAry .= "$$page[0],";
    $wAry .= "$$page[1],";
    $mAry .= "$$page[2],";
}

#... continued
exit;

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Thanks in advance....

In reply to Problems with 'strict' and variables created on the fly by nedals

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