Removing the print doesn't help - it is printing every last name in the database table. I just want it to print the surname of 'Gay' when it finds the first name 'Gay'. Only surnames should be printed whose first name is 'Gay' It seems to be printing every surname in the table. 

for my $key (keys %names){
for my $key2(keys $names{$key}){
if ($names{$key}{$key2}[0] = 'Gay'){
print "Last Name:".$names{$key}{$key2}[1]."\n";
}
}
}

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Thanks for the help here :)

In reply to Re^4: multi level hash terror - if statement to access specific elements by hungrysumo79
in thread multi level hash terror - if statement to access specific elements by hungrysumo79

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