Oh wise perl monks, I am in need of help hopefully for something simple (yet obviously obscure). What I am trying to do is this. Write a script that uses a library with multiple arrays defined. The script parses command line arguments, the first of which is the name of one of the arrays contained in the library. My problem is how to actually be able to use the string recieved to call the corresponding array. I would post a code snippet but honestly what I have come up with so far just complains that I am trying to use a string as a scalar ref while strict refs are in use. This doesn't work for me and I am wondering if there is a way to do this correctly?? 
<lib contains>
@names = ('joe', 'bob', 'sally');

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<script contains>
my $string = shift;
my @array = @{$string};

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<command line would be>
$ ./testscript names

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Resulting in @array containing joe, bob and sally.

In reply to using input as array name by calmthestorm

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