In general, you don't ``declare'' a structure. Just use a (probably
anonymous) hash reference. See the
perlref manpage and the
perldsc manpage for details. Here's an example:
$person = {};# new anonymous hash
$person->{AGE} = 24;# set field AGE to 24
$person->{NAME} = "Nat";# set field NAME to "Nat"
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