note Anonymous Monk <p><i>Sorry for asking what might look like a dumb question to an expert, but my Perl skills are still limited.</i><p> :) My intent was not to admonish, I was interested to know your search terms (you should share them if you searched) as this topic can be hard to find. <p> I tried a bunch variations, I even resorted to [href://?node_id=3989;BIT=benchmark%20hash%7B], closest I found was [id://10988|Array to Hash], [id://517458|Using map to create a hash/bag from an array] -- not your case exactly, but seems to cover all available syntax -- you could adapt it 1008288 1008292 3