%hoh = map { $_, { map { $_, 1 } @{ $hol{$_}} } } keys %hol; #### #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; my %hol = ( first => [ 1, 2, 3 ], second => [ 2, 4, 6 ] ); my %hoh; %hoh = map { $_, { map { $_, 1 } @{ $hol{$_}} } } keys %hol; walk_hash(\%hoh); sub walk_hash { my $h_ref = shift; my $indent = shift; $indent ||= 0; foreach my $key (keys %$h_ref) { print "\t" x $indent, "$key => "; my $value = $h_ref->{$key}; if (ref($value) eq 'HASH') { print "\n"; walk_hash($value, $indent + 1); } else { print "\t" x $indent, "$value\n"; } } }