You mean like:

#/usr/local/bin/perl -n -l

($value, $key) = /(\w+)\s*=>\s*'(.*?)'/;
print "$key => '$value',";
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That was pretty much what I did not want to do, I wanted to keep the 'keys' and 'values' in the same order as I had them. BTW this was meant to be a passing thought in the realm of meditation, and I am sorry if I seemed to be whining. And although I wasn't really after wisdom, I ended up getting some from tilly anyway :)