c:\@Work\Perl\monks>perl -wMstrict -le "use Test::More 'no_plan'; use Test::NoWarnings; ;; use Data::Dump qw(dd); ;; my %h = ( a => [ 1 ], b => [ 2, 99, 88 ], c => [ 3 ], d => [ 1, 99 ] ); ;; my %r = invert(%h); dd \%r; ;; my %rr = invert(%r); dd \%rr; ;; is_deeply \%rr, \%h, 'round trip'; ;; done_testing; ;; exit; ;; sub invert { my %h = @_; my %r; for my $hk (keys %h) { push @{ $r{$_} }, $hk for @{ $h{$hk} }; } return %r; } " { 1 => ["a", "d"], 2 => ["b"], 3 => ["c"], 88 => ["b"], 99 => ["b", "d"] } { a => [1], b => [99, 88, 2], c => [3], d => [99, 1] } not ok 1 - round trip # Failed test 'round trip' # at -e line 1. # Structures begin differing at: # $got->{b}[0] = '99' # $expected->{b}[0] = '2' 1..1 ok 2 - no warnings 1..2 # Looks like you failed 1 test of 2.