Daniel Falkenberg wrote: > ... > which creates the hash... > > %hash_ref ( > 'Comment' => 'username', > 'Comment1' => 'username1', > 'Comment2' => 'username2' > ); > > > But the problem I am having is how would I go about telling my perl > script to go and place replace the username of username to *username. > What about:
while (my ($key, $value) = each %hash_ref) { $value = "*username" if $value eq "username"; } Or (TMTWTDI): %new_hash = map {$_ => ($hash_ref{$_} eq 'username' ? '*username' : $hash_ref{$_})} %hash_ref; Best Wishes, Andrea -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]