in reply to A little bit of help with hashes... (once again :) )

TIMTOWTDI... 

my $fields;
@$fields{qw( username password )} = @Login{qw( username password )};

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Are you sure that you actually need to get rid of the extra key/value pair, though?

-sauoq
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