use Modern::Perl; use open ':utf8'; use autodie; my (%nonmatchhash, @hashvalues); open my $NONMATCHINPUT, '<', 'OutputNonMatchedWords.txt'; do { /(.*)\t(.*)/; $nonmatchhash{$1} = $2; push @hashvalues, $2 } for <$NONMATCHINPUT>; close $NONMATCHINPUT; while ( my ( $key, $value ) = each %nonmatchhash ) { given ($key) { when (/\A$value\z/) { say "key '$key' eq value '$value'"; } when (/(.*)(agtig)(e|er|ste)?$/) { say "$key\t$_" for grep /(.*)(achtig)(e|er|ste)?$/, @hashvalues; } default { say "No match for key '$key'"; } } }