I'm using the following little snippet of code: my $r = $sth->fetchrow_hashref() or return 0; $self->{keys %$r} = $self->{values %$r}; I can't imagine there's a better way to plug the values from %$r into my hash, but I figure it's worth asking about... xoxo, Andy -- # Andy Lester %_=split';','.; Perl ;@;st a;m;ker;p;not;o;hac;t;her;y;ju'; print map $_{$_}, split //, 'andy@petdance.com' ==== Want to unsubscribe from Fun With Perl? Well, if you insist... ==== Send email to <fwp-request@technofile.org> with message _body_ ==== unsubscribe