#!/usr/bin/perl 
##
## Programmer:    Craig Stuart Sapp <craig@ccrma.stanford.edu>
## Creation Date: Fri Jul 23 04:43:31 PDT 1999
## Last Modified: Fri Jul 23 04:43:36 PDT 1999
## Filename:      /home/httpd/html/perl/examples/stringtosymbol
## Syntax:        Perl 5
##
## Description:   how to generate a symbol name out of a string.
##

$abc = "successful";
$b   = "a";

print ${$b."bc"}, "\n";