perl -MList::MoreUtils -E 'my %stuff=(otherinfo=>"this and that", dateinfo=>{List::MoreUtils::zip qw|sec min hour mday mon year wday yday isdst| ,localtime(time) }); say "sec=",$stuff{dateinfo}{sec}, " year=",$stuff{dateinfo}{year}' Type of arg 1 to List::MoreUtils::mesh must be array (not list) at -e line 5, near ") }" Type of arg 2 to List::MoreUtils::mesh must be array (not localtime) at -e line 5, near ") }" Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.