When processing CSV files, I usually use Text::CSV to read in the first line to get the column headings and then I use that information to index into the rest of the data by column names (I know what the columns are called, but I don't know what column number they are). Currently, I use the following code, which does not feel very Perl-ish. 
use warnings;
use strict;
use Text::CSV;

# setup a CSV parser
my $csvParser = Text::CSV->new({ binary => 1, sep_char => ',', empty_i
+s_undef => 1 }) or die "Cannot create new CSV parser: $!\n";
open my $csvHandle, "<", $csvFile or die "could not open $csvFile: $!"
+;

# figure out the column headings from the first line
my @csvColumns = ();
foreach my $colName (@{$csvParser->getline($csvHandle)}) {
    push @csvColumns, $colName;
}

# reverse that to allow lookup by name
my %csvColumns;
for my $colNum (0 .. scalar(@csvColumns)-1) {
    $csvColumns{$csvColumns[$colNum]} = $colNum;
}

# access some column in the CSV file by name
while (my $line = $csvParser->getline($csvHandle)) {
    print "Column Foo has value $$line[$csvColumns{Foo}];
}

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Is there a more perl-like way to reverse an array into a hash that could then be used to get the index into the data?

In reply to Perl-ish way to create hash from array by gri6507

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