my %age; # Age of a person, in years $age{'Sonny'} = 30; $age{'Junior'} = 10; $age{'Poppa'} = 40; foreach my $person (sort keys %age) { print "$person is $age{$person} years old\n"; } #### open my $orglist, '<', $ARGV[1] or die "Can't open $ARGV[1]: $!"; foreach my $item (<$orglist>) { chomp($item); print { exists $dellist{$item} ? $beepon : $beepoff } $item . "\n"; } close $orglist;