I was wondering if it is possible to convert an array (that needs splitting) to hash key/values using map. I tried several Super Searches, looked under Categorized Q&A, in the Perl Cookbook and Programming Perl 2nd Edition but couldn't find examples similar to what I'm looking for: 
use strict;
use warnings;

my @array = qw(key1:value1 key2:value2 key3:value3);
my (%hash, $key, $val);

foreach (@array) {
   ($key, $val) = split ":";
   $hash{$key} = $val;
}

print "\$hash{$_} = $hash{$_}\n" foreach keys %hash;

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I want replace the foreach (@array) with something like this: %hash = map {# what the heck goes here?} @array; I haven't used map much, but would like to start using it more often where appropriate. Maybe the question should be "Is it appropriate in this example?". TIA,

--Jim

In reply to Using map to split an array to hash key/values by jlongino

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