%chores = (Monday => "dishes", 1 => "Tuesday", vacuum => "2", Wednesday => "garbage", "3"); #### Odd number of elements in hash assignment #### my %chores = (Monday => ["dishes" , "1"], Tuesday => ["vacuum" , "2"], Wednesday => ["garbage" , "3"]); my $value = join ' ', @{ $chores{Wednesday} }; print "$value\n";