Get variable from its name string or vice versa? | Data Conversion

Get variable from its name string or vice versa?

I have written a function to log variables like this: " varName: varValue" but it takes two arguments: the variable name as a string, and the variable symbol: logVar ("myVar", $myVar) ; sub logVar { my $varName = shift ; my $varValue = shift ; if (!defined($varValue)) { $varValue = "<undef>" ;