I work in left field ;-). I don't always have access to the data directly from a DBI call. I have to deal with unloads that don't carry column names. Being of the mind that the fewer keystrokes I have to type, the fewer dumb errors I'll have to correct I'm looking for a way to take the results of a split 
my ($a, $b, $c, $d) = split(/\|/,$unloadrow);

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and build a hash keyed by the column name (a, b, etc) without having to type each name twice more as in 
$hash{'a'} = $a;
$hash{'b'} = $b;
...

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This may seem lazy but I often have a dozen tables with twenty or more columns to deal with and it would be nice to avoid a lot of error prone and repetitious typing or even cobble up a subroutine to handle building the hash.

The goal is to build a hash of those hashes so I can look up individual field values to do analysis of the data.

Thanks!

In reply to Re^4: getting the name of a variable to use as string by pmneve
in thread getting the name of a variable to use as string by pmneve

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