in reply to How to create an anonymous array for lines in a file and store a reference to that array in the hash

if i understood correctly, you want something like this ... :-) 
%Hash_filenames = map {
    chomp;
    local @ARGV = ($_);
    ($_ => [<>])
} @plf_files;

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