This is how I would implement this: 
my @data = (
qq{key1~key2~key3
Value for key1, key2, key3},

qq{key4~key5~key6
Value for key4, key5, key6},

qq{key7~key8~key9
Value for key7, key8, key9}
);

my %hash;
for (@data) {
    s/\n(.*)$//;
    %hash = ( %hash, map {$_, $1} split(/~/, $_));
}

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Also possible: 
my %hash = map {
    my @things = split(/~|\n/, $_);
    my $value = pop @things;
    map { $_, $value } @things;
} @data;

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In reply to Re: Splitting an array to populate hash by Pardus
in thread Splitting an array to populate hash by Coruscate

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