If you want to delete a song based on the filename, one way of doing it is to go through the songs comparing the filename to the list to delete:

# i renamed %test to %songs for sanity's sake

for my $song_title (keys %songs) {
    my $song_file = $songs{$song_title};
    if (grep $_ eq $song_file, @{$q->param('files')) {
        delete $song{$song_title};
        unlink $song_file;
    }
}
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You say you also tried my %test = (@song_titles, @song_files); which just strings the two lists together but because a hash takes pairs of elements you found that the pairings were incorrect. This can be resolved with my initial example (see above post) of @songs{@song_titles} = @song_files;.

The thing with hashes is that the keys are all unique so to me it would make more sense if you used the filename (including path) as the key and the title (which there may be more than one instance of) as the value - this also removes your need to iterate through the songs to find the one to delete. Just an idea to make it work for you instead of the other way around.

Hope this helps,

   larryk                                          
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