Well, you'd need to be running this code without use strict or -w because it goes against all kinds of best practices (symbolic refs, undeclared vars), but you could do someting like this...

foreach (keys %in) {
  $$_ = in{$_};
}
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But I think that all in all that is a very bad idea.

If you were using CGI.pm instead of cgi-lib.pl you could use the import_names function which does something similar.

Of course, if it's just the amount of typing that you're concerned about you can save two keystrokes on each hash element by typing $in{NAME} instead of $in{'NAME'}.

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