One last time -- I strongly urge you to read the links posted to Dominus' treatise on the subject. The code you will write will be orders of magnitude easier to maintain, if you follow the advice *everybody* is giving you here. Perl will keep track of how many elements in the list there are if you use the complex data structure rather than symbolic references. You'll be able to use strict which will help you track down bugs. Symrefs may seem more natural to you now, but they're really not.

Even if you're having trouble wrapping your head around the reference idea, your investment in getting it down and getting the job right will pay off many times over both now and down the road. ESPECIALLY if you're building something complex, you're better off using a data structure that you can easily recreate and/or dump with Data::Dumper, for example.

$sermon->end(); 

perl -e 'print "How sweet does a rose smell? "; chomp ($n = <STDIN>); 
+$rose = "smells sweet to degree $n"; *other_name = *rose; print "$oth
+er_name\n"'

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in thread Varying Variable Names by willick

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