use Data::Dumper qw(Dumper); use warnings; use strict; my $hash; { local $/; $hash = ; } my $VAR1; eval $hash; print keys %$VAR1; __DATA__ $VAR1 = { 'blah.com' => [ '212.235.56.176' ], 'blah.org' => [ '212.235.56.176' ], 'www.boo.org' => [ '212.235.56.176' ], };