I am new to perl (first language so no programming background either) and need help solving a problem I am having. I am writing some code to check DNS records and I am stumped here. I an trying to create a hash from user input. Here is the code, for some reason I can not populate the hash (keys or values) using a variable. Any help is appreciated.

NOTE: print statements were for debugging :) 

$count = 0;
foreach (@rawdata) {
        #Remove newline
        if ($count == 0) {
                $key = $_; $count++; 
                chomp $key; 
                print "Key: $key<br>"; 
                next;
        }
        if ($count == 1) {
                $value = $_; 
                $count++; 
                chomp $value; 
                print "Value: $value<br><hr>";
        }
        if ($count == 2) {
                $ipkey{'$key'} = '$value'; 
                $count = 0;
        print $ipkey{$key};
        }

}

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In reply to Creating hash with variables by vonedaddy

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