I have list of strings and IDs associated with them, like: 
$fruits = {553 => 'apple', 16 => 'orange', 25 => 'lemon', 552 => 'appl
+e' };

# and a listbox, displaying them
$lb->insert('end', 'apple', 'orange', 'lemon', 'apple');

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I'm looking for effective way to store ID and a string together, something like $lb->insert('end', 'apple:553', 'apple:552'); but without displaying the colon and number

so is there a way to assign some custom properties to listbox item?

In reply to effective way to bind Tk::Listbox items and custom objects by warpod

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