Hi guys, In the example below I create a hash with names as values and phone numbers as keys: 

 my % phoneDirectory=(
‘Shirly’=>‘7267975’,
‘Michael’=>‘5243755’,
‘Fred’=>‘1294874’,
);

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I can extract the phone number of say Shirly by phoneNumber=$phoneDirectory{"Shirly"}; What if Shirly had more than one number. Is there a way to extract all her phone numbers by using her name as a key? Now,Suppose I have the following file: 
John Marry
John Lea
John Paul
David Patrik
David Sam

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I want to be able to read the file into a has of hash and I want to be able to retrieve all elements under a key. For example I want to be able to say print $hash{John} and get Marry, Lea, Paul. Is that possible?

In reply to Accessing hash values in a HOH by modi2020

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