I have a tab delimited file that is a DB export of an addressbook. I want to map the data from this file into a hash that has associative keys. I can read the data into an array with no problem, but is there an easy way to map this into the hash? Or is there a way to split things into the hash instead of an array? I believe going from the array to a hash isn't too difficult, but I need to get to an associative hash. Maybe array -> hash -> associative hash? Don't know, that's why I'm posting this! 

/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;

my $import_file = shift || 'addresses';
my @tmp;
my %import_data =(
                        'id'                        => '',
                        'username'                => '',
                        'domain'                    => '',
                        'address'                => '',
                        'firstname'                => '',
                        'lastname'                => '',
                        'nickname'                => '',
                        'type'                    => '',
                        'street'                    => '',
                        'city'                    => '',
                        'state'                    => '',
                        'zip'                        => '',
                        'country'                => '',
                        'company'                => '',
                        'home_phone'            => '',
                        'work_phone'            => '',
                        'pager'                    => '',
                        'cellular'                => '',
                        'fax'                        => '',
                        'other'                    => '',
                        'birth_month'            => '',
                        'birth_day'                => '',
                        'birth_year'            => '',
                        'birthday'                => 'undef',
                        'title'                    => '',
                        'status'                    => '',
                        'time_stamp'            => '',
                        'middleinitial'        => '',
                        'nameprefix'            => 'undef',
                        'namesuffix'            => 'undef',
                        'street2'                => '',
                        'website'                => '',
                        'notes'                    => '',
                        'department'            => 'undef',
                        'assistant'                => 'undef',
                        'dstreet'                => '',
                        'dstreet2'                => '',
                        'dcity'                    => '',
                        'dstate'                    => '',
                        'dzip'                    => '',
                        'dcountry'                => '',
                        'dphone1'                => 'undef',
                        'dphone2'                => 'undef',
                        'daddress'                => '',
                        'dspouse'                => 'undef',
                        'danniversary_day'    => '',
                        'danniversary_month'    => '',
                        'dnotes'                    => 'undef',
                        'dwebsite'                => '',
                        'daddress2'                => '',
                        'danniversary_year'    => '',
                        'category'                => '',
                        'prime_phone'            => '',
                      );



open(FILE, "< $import_file") or die "Cannot open $import_file ERR: $!\
+n";
while (<FILE>) {
    @tmp = split /\t/;
    #map @tmp to %import_data here
    #then call a sub-routine to manipulate
}
close FILE;

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Thank You,

-THRAK
www.polarlava.com

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