$VAR1 = { 'S1' => 'C-D', 'S2' => 'C-D', 'S4' => 'CID', 'S3' => 'CAD' }; From LOOP $VAR1 = { 'S1' => 'C-D', 'S2' => 'C-D', 'S4' => 'CID', 'S3' => 'CAD' }; #### This is perl, v5.8.6 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread