Thanks chromatic, I just needed a sanity check. It's been one of those days. Plus, this has been one of the first times that I've had a specific piece of code that I felt would be of use to others, and would also give me a chance to see MTOWTDI. I'm not tied to the current act of building the hashref, but the hashref is now in place so that I can't make significant changes to the end result. But in my case, the parameters that I put in at runtime do have known values in the anonymous array. It happens that I just don't know the keys.

ALL HAIL BRAK!!!