use strict; use warnings; my %h; my $HoA = { 'music' => [ 9, 53, 3, 15 ], 'conferences' => [ 7, 56, 15, 53 ], }; @h{@$_} = undef for values %$HoA; my @ids = keys %h; print "@ids"; # 53 56 3 7 9 15