Contructing variable names from variables.

Junior WebHelper Joined: 04 Feb 2002 Posts: 5

I am a novice perl programmer. I am working on a script that updates news items on a webpage from a webpage interface.

It uses a load of variables carried over from a previous operation that relates to the 'news' id number i.e. $title1,$text1 for the first news item, $title2,$text2 for the second etc.

I need to use, within a regex, a variable found from a parentheses on the left hand side to construct the variable name used on the right hand side.

Perhaps if I showed my first attempt (which failed) it may become more clear.

s/.*?/<h2>$title(?:$1)<\/h2><p>$text(?:$1)<\/p>/e;

So on the right hand side, I want perl to refer to a variable called $title3 say, after it matched 

I would really appreciate some help as this is my first hefty piece of regex.

Thanks

Brendan.