Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 06:40:13 +0000 (UTC)
From: bernard.el-hagin@lido-tech.net (Bernard El-Hagin)
Subject: Re: Naming a hash
Message-Id: <slrn9jo8aq.112.bernard.el-hagin@gdndev25.lido-tech>

On Fri, 29 Jun 2001 14:27:09 +0800, Just in
<justin.devanandan.allegakoen@intel.com> wrote:
>Dear group,
>
>Suppose I was in a loop, and I wanted to push some values into a hash, but I
>wanted the hash to have a different name for each iteration of the loop. i.e
>how can I do this:-
>
>for ($a = 0; $a <= $#SomeArray; $a++)
>{
>    # do something to get data here
>
>    $NewHash$a{$Var} = $Val;
>}
>
>Obviously this wont work, and variations of the theme (that I have
>attempted), dont work either.

Instead of creating a new name with each iteration why not
do something like:

for( my $a = 0; $a <= $#some_array; $a++ ){
	$hash{$a}{$var} = $val;
}

That way you don't need symbolic refs (which is what you're asking for
even if you don't know it) which are evil.

Cheers,
Bernard
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