in reply to hash array

You can name it as Associative Arrays . Associative arrays are created with a set of key/value pairs.
You can create an Associative Array by using the below syntax.
%arrName = ('key1', 'value1', 'key2', 'value2');

You can access the associative array values by specifying the keys.
$arrName{'key1'} will result "value1".