Re: Perl-ish way to create hash from array

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Maybe I'm not understanding your question but you can use Text::CSV to give you a hash reference directly:

# figure out the column headings from the first line
my $headrow = $csvParser->getline($csvHandle);

# tell the parser to use those headings as hash keys
$csvParser->column_names($headrow);

while ( my $hash = $csvParser->getline_hr($csvHandle) ) {
    print "Column Foo has value $hash->{Foo}";
}