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[QUOTE="DJ Stunks, post: 4861890"]
Hey all,

I have an API I need to call as a string of comma separated values.  I
want to name those values in a hash so that it's easy to see what I'm
setting each value to.  However, the values have to go into the API
call in a certain order.  The goal is to make the code as clean and as
self-documenting as possible (ideally both the API call syntax and the
call values should be clearly apparent in the Perl code)

I can do it using a hash slice as follows, but this seems like a
pretty bad approach so I thought I'd shop it around and see what you
all think would be a better approach.  Tie::IxHash maybe? (I've never
used it)

TIA,
-jp

#/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

#API syntax: my_API_call
(<this_parameter>,<that_parameter>,<extra_parameter>)

my %parms = (
this_parameter => 'some value',
that_parameter => 'another value',
extra_parameter => 'a third value',
);

my @order = qw{ this_parameter that_parameter extra_parameter };

my $stringified_API_call = 'my_API_call(' . join(',', @parms
{ @order }) . ')';

print "call it: $stringified_API_call\n";

__END__
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