The simple answer

my %hash=@keys;

already does what you want. =)

UPDATES

The long answer!

Regarding your initial question: "unfortunately not"!

Perl5 doesn't provide a built-in way to have multiple loop vars in foreach.

There are several workarounds with while loops:

but these workarounds have been discussed so often in the monastery that I'd prefer to link them after finding them.

Splice

In this case (ignoring the solution on top) I would do something with splice: 

  DB<113> @array = (a =>1,b=>2)
 => ("a", 1, "b", 2)

  DB<114> while ( my ($key,$val) = splice(@array,0,2) ) {
           $hash{$key}=$val;
          }

  DB<115> \%hash
 => { a => 1, b => 2 }

  DB<116> \@array            # emptied! 
 => []

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You need to copy @array in case I wanna keep the initial elements after the loop.

Older discussions

googling the monastery for splice+natatime

Cheers Rolf

Errata

Originally I proposed this code

while(@array) {
   $hash{shift @array} = shift @array;
}

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But I was bitten by precedence, the code does it the wrong way around:

  DB<108> @array = ( a => 1, b => 2 )
 => ("a", 1, "b", 2)

  DB<109> $hash{shift @array} =shift @array while @array

  DB<110> \%hash
 => { 1 => "a", 2 => "b" }

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In reply to Re: multiple local vars in a foreach loop by LanX
in thread multiple local vars in a foreach loop by shawnkielty

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