use Modern::Perl qw /2014/; use Data::Dumper ; my %Hash; $Hash{a}[0]="i"; $Hash{a}[1]="ii"; $Hash{a}[2]="iii"; $Hash{b}[0]="iv"; $Hash{b}[1]="v"; $Hash{b}[2]="vi"; say Dumper (\%Hash); #### $VAR1 = { 'b' => [ 'iv', 'v', 'vi' ], 'a' => [ 'i', 'ii', 'iii' ] };