This is probably not a great way to do it... not only is it inefficient and open to syntax errors (i.e. a key of ';}' would be bad), but if this was something that used user input it could be a security hole... ( @ary = '},`rm -rf /`,{' )

eval is usually best used as a last resort and for exception handling (though this is usually with existing written code)

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