[Techtalk] Perl Frustration

[Jeff Dike]

kmactane at GothPunk.com said:
> I want to declare a set of variables inside a loop, and have them be
> accessible to the rest of the program. It's not known until run-time
> just  how many of these variables there are, or what their names will
> be. (They  may be acquired from user input, or from a configuration
> file.) 

Why are you insisting that they be actual perl variables?  Much more pleasant
would be a hash in which each configuration variable is a key.

				Jeff