in reply to Ignoring values in a hash slice assignment

What about using an array list slice on your hash slice? 
my @fields = (
    'FIRSTNAME',
    'LASTNAME',
    'PHONE',
    'FAX',
    'CITY',
    'STATE',
);

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and then 
@record{@fields} = (split(/\t/, $_))[0,1,2,6,8,9];

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UPDATE: thx to converter for pointing out my goof-up

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grep> grep clue /home/users/*

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Re: Re: Ignoring values in a hash slice assignment
by impossiblerobot (Deacon) on Feb 28, 2002 at 22:06 UTC
    Thanks, grep (and dragonchild who made a similar suggestion).

    Using an array slice on the split was one of the other ways I considered, but my actual field list is much longer (over 70 fields in all), and I didn't want to maintain two long lists.

    I could generate the second list programmatically, but I figured that would be even more complicated that my two solutions. (Of course, it is very possible that I was wrong.)

    Impossible Robot
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      Actually I was going to add 'creating the list programmatically' as an additional suggestion. The great thing is, if you do it right, your data structure is factored out to 1 place, so you only have to make changes in 1 place as you make changes. I think if you follow this you'll be happier in the long run.

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      grep> grep clue /home/users/*
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