I am attepting to pass an optional anonymous hash as the first argument to a function. I allow any case for the keys and values. I then convert the hash in the hash reference to all lowercase. I have isolated the method I am using to this small script. My question is: Is there a way to convert the keys and values of a hash to all lowercase without using a temporary hash? (I realize this will change the original hash.)

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use diagnostics;
use Data::Dumper;

my $hash_ref = {    Extension   => '.txt',
                    Content     => 'text',
                    Directory   => 'c:/'    };

print Dumper $hash_ref;

my %lc_hash;
$lc_hash{lc $_[0]} = lc $_[1] while @_ = each %$hash_ref;
$hash_ref = \%lc_hash;

print Dumper $hash_ref;

__END__

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Thank You,
Charles K. Clarkson

In reply to How do I convert entire hash to lowercase? by CharlesClarkson

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