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#!/usr/bin/perl # http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=1185995 use strict; use warnings; my @array1 = ("one", "two", "three", "four", "five"); my @array2 = ("banana", "pear", "apple"); my %hash = (numbers => \@array1, fruit => \@array2 ); use Data::Dumper; print Dumper \%hash; $_ = join ',', @$_ for values %hash; print Dumper \%hash;