c:\@Work\Perl>perl -MData::Dump -le "use warnings; use strict; ;; my %hash = ( 'accents' => 'utf-8', 'accounting' => 'money', 'bank' => 'money'. 'ing' => 'money', 'foo' => 'bar'. 'perls' => 'perl', ); dd \%hash; " { accents => "utf-8", accounting => "money", bank => "moneying", barperls => "perl", money => "foo", } #### c:\@Work\Perl>perl -MData::Dump -le "use warnings; use strict; ;; my %hash = qw( accents utf-8 accounting money bank money ing money foo 1 perls perl ); dd \%hash; " { accents => "utf-8", accounting => "money", bank => "money", foo => 1, ing => "money", perls => "perl", }