perl q's

[C. Olmsted]

Thanks, I just figured it out I think.

The solution is to do something like this...

# test solution
$i = 1;
$temp1 = "blah";
print `temp$i`;
exit ;

Note the apostrophe.  Let me know if anyone has better/alternative 
solutions.

Cliff

On Sun, 12 Mar 2000, C. Olmsted wrote:

> Hey all,
> 
> Yet another non-linux question :)  I'm working on a cgi development for
> work.  I have a list of input variables on an html form set up like this:
> 
> name1, name2, name3, name4,...
> 
> I would like to create a loop to parse each of the names in turn since
> there could be any arbitrary number of these variables with
> different values for each (the form is dynamic).
> 
> My thinking is something like this...
> 
> for ($i = 1; $i <= $count; $i++)
> {
> 	$name$i = param('$name$i')
> 	print $name$i;
> }
> 
> where $count is the number of names that exist in the list.
> 
> Of course this doesn't work since I don't know how to combine
> two variables into one variable name.  Is a foreach loop what I really
> want to use?
> 
> Thanks,
> Cliff
> 
> 
>