use strict; use warnings; use Data::Diver qw( DiveVal ); use Data::Dumper; my $aokeys = [ [ 'a', 'b', 'c' ], [ 'a', 'b', 'd' ], [ 'b', 'b', 'b' ], ]; my $href = {}; foreach my $key_aref ( @$aokeys ) { DiveVal( $href, @$key_aref ) = 1; } print Dumper $href;