hi kiransmailid and welcome,

what have you tried and where you encounter problems?
you have an HashOfArrays as described in perldsc.
i think you can simply cycle the hash and check for the presence of the element 1 of the array that is the value for that key of the hash.

L*
perl -MData::Dumper -e " %h = ('Message2' => [ '0X026007' ], 'Message +4' => [ '0X026005', '0X026006' ] ); foreach $k(keys %h) { delete $h{$k} if defined $h{$k}[1] } print Dumper(\%h) " $VAR1 = { 'Message2' => [ '0X026007' ] };
UPDATE: in the remote past existed caveats about modifying hashes while iterating over them; we are speaking of Perl release prior 5.8 see Adding or removing keys while iterating over a hash Re: Deleting Hash Entries while Iterating

L*
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In reply to Re: finding the keys with mutliple values in hash and delete them by Discipulus
in thread finding the keys with mutliple values in hash and delete them by kiransmailid

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