Currently I am pushing certain values into an array, but I think my goal would be best accomplished by populating a hash with values from another hash and a `back-tick` command.

The first hash is a Value=>Label which I loop over pushing "Label" into another hash as the key and passing the "Value" to a back-tick command, to be used as the associated keys value. I hope that makes sense. ;)

Here is a snippet of where I am at: 
$direction = shift;
%iface = (
          "if${direction}Octets.2"   => 'FastEthernet0/1',
          "if${direction}Octets.3"   => 'FastEthernet0/2',
          "if${direction}Octets.4"   => 'FastEthernet0/3',
          "if${direction}Octets.5"   => 'FastEthernet0/4',
          "if${direction}Octets.26"  => 'GigabitEthernet0/1',
  );

foreach my $oid (sort keys(%iface)) {
  %oids = ("$iface{$oid}" => `$snmpwalk $ip $community $oid`);
}

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The %oids hash seems to be overwriten with each loop, leading me to re-think the process. I was previously pushing the above data onto an array, but I need to keep the label and 'return values' together for later pushing into a db.

I was thinking of another variation on the loop, something like: 
foreach my $oid (sort keys(%iface)) {
  @oids = ({"$iface{$oid}" => `$snmpwalk $ip $community $oid`});
}

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However, I am not exactly sure how to get the data pairs back out of the @oids array. Can anyone nudge me in the right direction?

In reply to hashing it out. by penguinfuz

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