I am working the Llama (what else is new) and have a problem with my code (again what else..). This will eventually use STDIN as input but for now I am using an @. The sub is supposed to return only the values whose keys are named in the input along with the input which did not match any key. What I get is all the values every time, regardless of input.

I would really appreciate it if someone could get me thinking in the right direction without giving me corrected code, I really want to get this.
TIA
jg
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
use strict;
my @a=(9,8,1);
my (@names,@name_nums);

@names=name_nums(@a);
print "@names";

sub name_nums {
    my (%list,@name_nums,$this_num);
    @list{1..9}=qw(one two three four five six seven eight nine);
    foreach $_ (keys (%list)){
        if (exists $list{$_}){
            $this_num = $list{$_};
            push (@name_nums,$this_num);
        }else{
            push (@name_nums,$_);
        }

    }
    return @name_nums;
}

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