On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 11:35:55PM -0500, Mike wrote: > I am working on a script that takes a email message > that is piped to it from a dot-qmail file. After reading > through the file, I have > created a hash of which the values are to be inserted > into a MySQL db. Problem is, the keys do not coorespond > to the field names in the table. > > Could someone help me run through this hash and "remap" > the keys to a differant value? > > For instance: > > First_Name => Joe > Last_name => Smith > > needs to become > > fname => Joe > lname => Smith > > v/r > Mike Try this: my %hash_map = { First_Name => "fname", Last_name => "lname" }; # etc. my %new_hash = map $hash_map{$_} => $old_hash{$_}, keys %old_hash; -Mike