I have a hash or hashref. Let's make it easy, a hash. 
my %h = (
   name => 'dumdum',
   age => 14,
   zone => 'a4',
   pocket => 'empty',
);

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I'm going to print some of this data with printf.. 
printf "%-20s %5d %s\n", $h{name}, $h{age}, $h{zone};

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What's another way to specify those three values? Specifically, as you would as list args.. I know this has to be out there.

I like this trick to init hash keys (learned it here).. 

my %a;
my @a = qw/name age zone pocket/;
@a{@a}=();
# looks weird, eh? ;-)
# now 'exists $a{name}' is true!

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Maybe there's some way to ...err... uhhhm ... 
printf "%-20s %5d %s\n", @h{qw/name age zone/};

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???

(sorry about the title, dunno how else the heck to word this)

update

Silly me, that second example, that was the solution, thanks toolic

In reply to selecting values from hash via list by leocharre

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