Does Perl have PHP-like dynamic variables?

Question

In PHP, I can write:

$vname = \'phone\';
$$vname = \'555-1234\';
print $phone;

... And the script will output \"555-1234\".

Is ther

Answer 1

You can do it in a very similar way:

$vname = "phone";
$$vname = "555-1234";
print $phone;

But that you can doesn't mean that you should. The best way to manage this is, as Michael Carman says, USE A HASH!