Greetings Monks,

I need to create a function that returns the value of a variable based on name. The goal is to be able to pass it a parameter and have it match a variable named that, and return its contents. The following code works fine, however uses global variables. Every time I make the variables private, the code ceases to work, and I REALLY don't want to use globals. Could someone show me an elegant way to do this? Also, when I use strict it will not compile. Thanks a lot for your time =)

Best Regards!

smack 
sub foo {
        my $parameter = $_[0];
        print "\nParameter: $parameter\n";
        $ipaddress = "foo_0";
        $username = "foo_1";
        $password ="foo_2";
        $sessionid = "foo_3";
        $version = "foo_4";
        $returning = ${$parameter};
        return $returning;

}

my $returned = &foo(@ARGV[0]);
print "Returned: $returned\n";

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