I must say, while your advice (to use a hash) seems perfectly sensible, I'm sort of confused about why you used a hashref instead of a plain hash. Also, you included some superfluous punctuation between the nested subscripts in your assignments. Do you just like typing the arrow operator that much? :-)

Here's how I'd have done it. Not all that different, but sometimes small things can make a difference:

my %max;
$max{george}{money} = 100;
$max{george}{budget} = 100;
my $person = "lindsay";
$max{$person}{money} = 1500;
$max{$person}{budget} = 2000;

for ("george","lindsay") {
   printf "%s's money= %d\n", $_, $max{$_}{money};
}

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In reply to Re^2: Dynamic variables by revdiablo
in thread Dynamic variables by xspikx

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