Well, hashes don't have any order, which may be annoying, if you're trying to get a navigation going (since they may move about, and won't appear in the order you want) so i stuffed them into a list-o-hashrefs

I think a nice way to do this would be with Template Toolkit 

my %variables = ( title => 'lookie here',
    sections=> 
    [ {label=>'DMA',uri=>'dma'}
    #  - - - 8< - - - SNIP - - - >8 - - - 
    ,{label=>'FOMC',uri=>'dma/FOMC'}         ]
); 

# pretty template for our navigation:
# note the UNLESS in for the adding of pipes after all but the last li
+nk

my $template = q{ 
[% title %]:
[% FOREACH link = sections %]
<a href="[% link.uri |uri %]">[% link.label %]</a>
[% '|' UNLESS loop.last %]
[% END %] 
};

use Template; 
my $t = Template->new({POST_CHOMP=>1});
$t->process(\$template, \%variables) || die $t->error();

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This will give you something a bit like

well, lookie here: DMA |FST |MRA |BKS |MSU |FMA |FOMC

You may want to read Introduction to Template Toolkit (part 3) from merlyn's neat Linux Magazine Columns.

Also, here's a vi regex to make your list into a list of hash refs: :s/\(\w\+\)=>\([^,]\+\)/{label=>'\1',uri=>\2}\r/g

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In reply to Re: Turning a hash into a line of links by f00li5h
in thread Turning a hash into a line of links by OfficeLinebacker

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