use strict; use warnings; my %hoh ; my ($dn,$mail) = qw( dn mail ); my @members = qw(foo bar baz); my @email_addrs = qw( foo@here bar@there ); my $rec = { DN => $dn, MAIL => $mail, MEMBERS => [ @members ], PROXYADDRS => [ @email_addrs ], }; $hoh{$dn} = $rec; use Data::Dumper; print Dumper \%hoh; ####