Rolf, That is a cleaver use of the Multi-Dimensional Array Emulation syntax even though that is not exactly what we are doing.

In the spirit of 'not inventing a wheel', perl can also do the input, looping and splitting for us if we use the -n and -a command switches. (perlrun). 

#!perl -na
use strict;
use warnings;

our %info;
$info{$F[0],$F[1]} = $F[2];

END{
    my $name = 'Jack';
    my $fruit = 'pineapple';
    my $path = $info{$name,$fruit};
    print "$name $fruit $path\n";
}

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OUTPUT:

>perl 1114899a.pl paths.csv
Jack pineapple /path/to/somewhere/b

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Bill

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