Wow! It is not often that BrowserUK makes a typo (his code sets just the first key). I think he meant:
my %hash;
@hash{qw[ a b c f t u] } = ('toto') x 6;
@hash{qw[ b g k p ]}     = ('titi') x 4;

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My personal favorite is:
my %hash;
my @array = qw[ a b c f t u];
@hash{@array } = ('toto') x @array;

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Update:Following a request from blazar: the typos made by BroswerUK were that the parentheses were omitted from the lhs of the x operator in both cases, and the final line was terminated with a comma instead of a semi-colon. It was probably the keyboard at fault - I have one just like it.

Anyway, I prefer my solution ("My personal favorite") because there is nothing to change when the array changes size.

In reply to Re^2: Hash multiple initialization by cdarke
in thread Hash multiple initialization by Anonymous Monk

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