use strict; use warnings; use Data::Dumper; my %hash = ( a => 1, b => 0, c => undef, e => 1, f => 0, g => undef ); my @interesting_keys = qw( a b c d ); my %small_hash = map { ($hash{$_}) ? ($_ => $hash{$_}) : () } @interesting_keys; print Dumper(\%small_hash);