#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; my $names; my @name; while(){ if(/{(.*)}/){ my @names_hash = qw{NAME AGE}; $names = $1; push (@name, $names); next if $names !(exists(@names_hash)); print $names; } } print @name; __DATA__ {NAME} {AGE} {SEX} {ADDRESS} {ADDRESS}