perl/psql question

[G. Matthew Rice]

Madison Kelly <linux-5ZoueyuiTZhBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org> writes:
>    I want to load a lot of data from a database into variables in a perl
>    script. The trick is I want the the value in one field to be the string
>    name and the value in another field to be the value of the string. Is
>    there any way to do this by chance? As I see it so far I will have to call
>    each variable/value pair one at a time... There must be a better way! 
>    Thanks!

The DBI module has functions for returning a select statement as a hash [key
and value pairs].
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