I have a hash on 5 programs that gets used in all of them, the hash is the same and every time one element has to be added to the list I have to manually change all 5 programs, what's the best way to make this hash a external or separated file so I can only maintain one file instead of 5? Here is a hash example:
my %hash=(
    '000001' => 'ITEM _First',
    '000002' => 'Item B',
    '000003' => 'House',
    '000004' => 'Service C',
    '000005' => 'Service X',
    '000006' => 'Service Z',
    '00007b' => 'Adjust Area',
    '020902' => 'Campus',
    '0sdc45' => 'Unit C',
    '000011' => 'Unit B',
    '0wed45' => 'Lower Level',
    '0ws456' => 'Cars',
    '02100m' => 'Numbers'
    )

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It would be nice if I could do this.
Thank you!

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