Autobox and \D play differently: 
use autobox::universal qw(type);
use Data::Dumper;
use strict;
use warnings;

my @array = ('a', 1, 2, 3, 4, 'b', 6, 7, 8, '1', 2, 3, 4, 5); # note t
+he '1' which autobox will call a string.
my %hash = ();
my $key;
for (@array) {
    if (type($_) eq 'STRING') {
        $key=$_;
    }
    else {
         push @{$hash{$key}},$_;
    }
}
warn Data::Dumper->Dump([\%hash],[qw(*hash)]),' ';

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The output from Data::Dumper: 
%hash = (
          '1' => [
                   2,
                   3,
                   4,
                   5
                 ],
          'b' => [
                   6,
                   7,
                   8
                 ],
          'a' => [
                   1,
                   2,
                   3,
                   4
                 ]
        );

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In reply to Re^3: Create a hash whose keys and values come from a given array by clueless newbie
in thread Create a hash whose keys and values come from a given array by IruP

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