in reply to matching input to hash keys

Well, you've defined the list you want in @a, passed it to the subroutine, but never used it :)

Update: Ugh! I just saw your comment about not giving you corrected code, so I've put my fix in an HTML comment. "View source", if you dare!

Cheers,
Ovid

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