use strict; use warnings; my %foo = ( "GENERATE" => "10 14 00 07 4d", "DELIVER" => "16 75 32 14 77" ); $foo{CREATE} = \$foo{GENERATE}; $foo{DELIV} = \$foo{DELIVER}; use Data::Dumper; print Dumper \%foo; #### print ${ $foo{CREATE} }, $/; #### $foo{CREATE} = $foo{GENERATE}; $foo{DELIV} = $foo{DELIVER};