got it to work with help from the Chatter crew, but the errors it spit out at first were: 

Bareword "a" not allowed while "strict subs" in use at sortHashForInse
+rt line 5.
Bareword "b" not allowed while "strict subs" in use at sortHashForInse
+rt line 5.
Bareword "c" not allowed while "strict subs" in use at sortHashForInse
+rt line 5.
Bareword "d" not allowed while "strict subs" in use at sortHashForInse
+rt line 5.
Bareword "e" not allowed while "strict subs" in use at sortHashForInse
+rt line 5.
Bareword "l" not allowed while "strict subs" in use at sortHashForInse
+rt line 6.
Bareword "p" not allowed while "strict subs" in use at sortHashForInse
+rt line 6.

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notice it only complains about l and p, the first and last elements of the list on line 6...why??

because m,n,o, gets interpreted as m/n/o/ the commas get used as alternative quotes for the match operator 'm'
Perl is too gracious : ) 

use strict;

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

my (@cols, @vals);

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

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

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

print "$statement\n\n";

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

In reply to works now under strict : ) by jptxs
in thread l,m,n,o,p special? by jptxs

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