#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Inline::Files; # Just for this Demo # so that this is a single runnable file # Monk node_id=11106111 my %nameValid; # initialize Name Hash... # Name the hash by what the Value Means, # not by what the hash key means while (my $name = ) { chomp $name; # shorter idioms exist $nameValid{$name}=1; # but this is just fine } while (my $line = ) { chomp $line; my ($name,$data) = split ",",$line,2; if ( exists $nameValid{$name} ) { # name is in "list" do something # I have no idea what to do? # so I just print that line print "$name => $data\n"; } } # prints the one line of interest: # 122854/1 => 284224,284277,chrX,255,+,284224,284277,255,0,0,1,53,0 __LISTOFNAMES__ 1000567/1 1000567/2 122854/1 1000574/1 1000574/2 __DATA__ 1083978/2,284224,284292,chrX,255,+,284224,284292,255,0,0,1,68,0 122854/1,284224,284277,chrX,255,+,284224,284277,255,0,0,1,53,0 641613/1,284224,284290,chrX,255,+,284224,284290,255,0,0,1,66,0