Here's one of my own (recent) favorites, which is a variation on Ovid's initializing all elements of an hash to 1:
my %column_num;
my @column_lbls = qw( Id Name SSN Phone FAX );
# initialize a hash with an array index:
@column_num{ @column_lbls } = 0 .. $#column_lbls;
# to find the index of the item matching $col_name:
my $index = $column_lbls{$col_name};
# to find the column numbers of several columns (e.g., a database quer
+y):
my @cols = @column_lbls{ qw(Name Phone FAX) };
Update: Oh, and don't forget the Orcish Maneuver, another personal favorite.
dmm
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