I use this particular routine asw a "perl module" for when i want to break down the querystring that I pass to another page/script, if you have another way, by all means, please offer it, it took me some time to figure out what i did get *heh*, but, my question is how i can read in a json string from my server and format it so I can reference it as $hashname{keyname} instead of the way I have "read" that I have to reference it as $hashname->{$keyname} with the "arrow" designator... I "use JSON" of course here. Is that what you were asking ? I can offer way more if neccessary, I was just looking for a way to maybe "map" the JSON string to a key/value %hash