craziness: 

%hash = (
        one => [1,2,3,4,5],
        two => [a,b,c,d,e],
        the => [l,m,n,o,p]
        );

foreach my $key ( keys %hash ) {
        push @cols, $key;
        push @vals, scalar( join ",", @{$hash{$key}} );
}

foreach $val ( @vals ) {
        print "$val";
        print "\n";
}
print "\n";

$statement = 'insert into this (' . (join ",", @cols) . ') values (' .
+ (join ",", @vals) . ')';

print "$statement\n\n";

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prints: 
/home/jptxs > perl sortHashForInsert
l,p
a,b,c,d,e
1,2,3,4,5

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yet change the 'the' hash key's value to anything else and: 
/home/jptxs > perl sortHashForInsert
9,8,7,6,5
a,b,c,d,e
1,2,3,4,5

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craziness!

-- I'm a solipsist, and so is everyone else. (think about it)

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