AWESOME reply. Thank you! I did read experiment a bit before I came back. And got this to work...
    $control[0]{"play"} = "/false/;
    $control[0]{"ctrl"} = "/false/;
    $control[0]{"loop"} = "/false/;
    % control = map { $_ => 'true' } split ' ', $4;

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Which I understand much better after reading your post.

I like your version much more: 
my %control = map { $_ => 'false' } qw(play ctrl loop);
  $control{$_} = 'true' for split ' ', $4;

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(thanks for qw tip)

I don't understand in the 2nd to last example, 
  my %control = map { $_ => 'true' } split ' ', $4;
  %control = ((map { $_ => 'false' } qw(play ctrl loop)), %control);

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why the hash is not reinitialized when the 'false's are applied. Isn't this your first caveat at the start of your post? I know it has something to do with the last %control...

I now also wonder how I would use flags and then assign specific values to the specific options w/o a lot of tests.
<code> # [src.mov -bfd] b=big, f=fast, etc.. %control = ((map { $_ => 'off' } qw(play ctrl loop)), %control); ?? Thanks Perl Monk!

In reply to Re^6: setting up boolean parameters from keywords by rand0mmm
in thread setting up boolean parameters from keywords by rand0mmm

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