Here are a couple of other ideas for you. 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use PDL;

my $x = sequence(5); print "$x \n";

my $lookup = {     
                0 => 101,
                1 => 69,
                2 => 42,
                3 => 10042,
                4 => 99
              };

my $y = zeroes(5); 

foreach (keys %{$lookup}){ 
      set $y, ,$_ ,$lookup->{$_};
 }

print "$y \n";

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This one is probably more useful, because you can read in a large amount of data. 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use PDL;
use PDL::IO::Misc;

my $z  = rcols *DATA;
print "$z\n";

print $z->at(1);
print "\n";

__DATA__
101 
69 
42 
10042 
99

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In reply to Re: Hash-type lookup in PDL by zentara
in thread Hash-type lookup in PDL by andye

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