Here my program it is really short, so I will post it here 

#!/usr/bin/perl -sw

use Data::Dumper;
use strict;
local $\=$/;
my %patterns;
open(PFILE, "whatpattern.txt")|| die "Cannot open whatpattern.txt file
+";
while (<PFILE>) {
    chomp;
    next unless $_;
    my @tags = split /; |:/;
    my $key = shift @tags;
    $patterns{$key} = \@tags;
}
open(TESTFILE, "alltestfile")|| die "Cannot open alltestfile";

while(defined(my $question=<TESTFILE>))
{

my @qkeys = $question =~ m!(/[A-Z0-9]+)!g;
my @qvalues = $question =~ m!(.*?)(?:/[A-Z0-9]+\s+)!g;


my %questionlookup;
@questionlookup{@qkeys} = @qvalues;   

my $key = join'',@qkeys;

print $question."\n\n";
if (my $answer = $patterns{$key})
{

  $answer =~ s!\s*$_\s*! $questionlookup{$_} !g for qkeys %questionloo
+kup;
  $answer =~ s/\:/\n\n/g;
  print $answer;

} else{

print "No Match\n";

}
}

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As you see I did not change much your code. Do I have to pass the array of values as a reference? Thanks

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: Match key and return value in some order by Anonymous Monk
in thread Match key and return value in some order by Anonymous Monk

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