… print Dumper @data; …. $VAR1 = { 'firstname' => 'Mary', 'lastname' => 'Lou', 'id' => '5252', 'email' => 'test@test.com', 'date' => '03/03/2014', 'olddate' => '03-23-2013', 'page' => 'no page', }; ... print "$$data{'firstname'}\n";