Not sure what your problem is, but that's way to much code :D

I think you want something like this: 

#!/usr/bin/env perl

use strict;
use warnings;

our %code;

while (<>){
    chomp;
    my @tokens = split " ", $_;
    my $protein = shift @tokens;
    for my $token (@tokens) {
        $code{$token} = $protein;
    }
}

foreach my $key (sort keys %code){
    print "$key\t$code{$key}\n";
}

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Using this input file: 

A ABC DEF GHI JKL
B QRS TUV WXY
C EYE LUV YOU

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I get this result: 

ABC    A
DEF    A
EYE    C
GHI    A
JKL    A
LUV    C
QRS    B
TUV    B
WXY    B
YOU    C

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-QM
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In reply to Re: reading RNA codons into hash by QM
in thread reading RNA codons into hash by ic23oluk

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