>type htmanning2.pl use strict; use warnings; my @hash_rows = ( {total => 3, other_col => 'fie'}, {total => 6, other_col => 'fum'}, {total => 5, other_col => 'oop'}, ); my %revenues = ( 3 => 30, 6 => 48, 10 => 50, ); my $total_revenue; foreach my $pointer (@hash_rows) { # simulate fetchrow_hashref for post my $total = $pointer->{total}; next if (!defined $total or !exists $revenues{$total}); my $revenue = $revenues{$total}; $total_revenue += $revenue; print "revenue: $revenue\ntotal_revenue $total_revenue\n\n"; } >perl htmanning2.pl revenue: 30 total_revenue 30 revenue: 48 total_revenue 78 >