dog = 55 cat = 12 #### my %hash = ( 'dog' => '5', 'sheep' => '10', 'cat' => '3', ); my %hash2 = ( 'dog' => '11', 'budgie' => '1', 'cat' => '4', ); foreach (keys %hash2) { if (exists $hash{$_}) { print "$_ exists"; } }