c:\@Work\Perl\monks>perl -wMstrict -MData::Dumper -le "my %hash = qw( 00:00:00 a 00:20:00 a 10:00:00 b 20:00:00 a 02:22:00 b ); print Dumper \%hash; ;; my %hash2 = qw( 00:00:00 a 00:20:00 a 10:00:00 b 20:00:00 a 02:22:00 b ); print Dumper \%hash2; ;; my @bla = (%hash, %hash2); print Dumper \@bla; " $VAR1 = { '00:20:00' => 'a', '10:00:00' => 'b', '02:22:00' => 'b', '00:00:00' => 'a', '20:00:00' => 'a' }; $VAR1 = { '00:20:00' => 'a', '10:00:00' => 'b', '02:22:00' => 'b', '00:00:00' => 'a', '20:00:00' => 'a' }; $VAR1 = [ '00:20:00', 'a', '10:00:00', 'b', '02:22:00', 'b', '00:00:00', 'a', '20:00:00', 'a', '00:20:00', 'a', '10:00:00', 'b', '02:22:00', 'b', '00:00:00', 'a', '20:00:00', 'a' ];