That should be done like in the writeup of LTjake Re: passing variables from cgi to javascript with an additonal escaping of quotes.

my %hash = (
  opt1 => [qw/these are the options of the dynamic select 
      box when opt1 in the first is selected/],
   #...
);
my $js = 'var items = new Array();'.
  map {
    "items['$_'] = new Array('".
      join("','",map quotemeta => @{$hash{$_}}).
     "');"
   } keys %hash;
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