#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use Data::Dumper; my $tokens = "32,15,4,72,13,28,14"; my @tokens = (split/,/,$tokens); my %tokens = map {$_ => 1}@tokens; print Dumper (\%tokens); __END__ Prints: $VAR1 = { '4' => 1, '32' => 1, '28' => 1, '72' => 1, '13' => 1, '14' => 1, '15' => 1 }; #### #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use Data::Dumper; my $tokens = "32,15,4,72,13,28,14"; my @tokens = (split/,/,$tokens); my $i=0; my %tokens = map {$_ => $i++}@tokens; print Dumper (\%tokens); __END__ Prints: VAR1 = { '4' => 2, '32' => 0, '28' => 5, '72' => 3, '13' => 4, '14' => 6, '15' => 1 }; #### my @tokens = qw (32 15 4 72 13 28 14); my $i=0; my %tokens = map {$_ => $i++}@tokens;