I recommend that you combine name and fruit into one key. I assume that the character '!' will never appear in the name of any person or fruit. 
use strict;
use warnings;
use autodie;
my $file = \<<'EOF';
Albert apple /path/to/somewhere/a
Jack pineapple /path/to/somewhere/b
Jack apple /path/to/somewhere/c
Dex jackfruit /path/to/somewhere/d
EOF

open( my $fh, '<', $file);
my %info;
while (<$fh>) {
    my @fields = split;
    my $key = "$fields[0]!$fields[1]";
    my $path = $fields[2];
    $info{$key} = $path;
}
close $fh;

my $name = 'Jack';
my $fruit = 'pineapple';
my $path = $info{"$name!$fruit"};

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In reply to Re: Perl parse text file using hash by BillKSmith
in thread Perl parse text file using hash by Anonymous Monk

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