[vox-tech] perl question - variable holding a variable name

[Peter Jay Salzman]

i have a text file that holds what i want to be variables.   like:

Legacy = "/usr/local/bin/doomlegacy"
PrboomClient = "blahblahblah"

i'd like to read the file in and set variables according to what is in the
file.  here's my attempt:

        #!/usr/bin/perl -w
        use diagnostics;
        # use strict;

        my ($var, $val);
        my $ConfigFile = 'config';

        open("FP", "< $ConfigFile");
        while(<FP>) {
                chomp;
                /^(\w+)\s*=\s*\"(.*)\"/;
                $var = $1;
                $val = $2;
                $$var = $val;
                print $Legacy;
        }
        close(FP);

the trouble is, $Legacy is undefined.   i was under the impression that in
perl, if you have a variable $hello which stored the word "dolly", then you
could say:

        my $$hello = "clementine";

and that would assign the word "clementine" to the variable $dolly.
obviously that's not happening.   help?

pete

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