I highly suggest fixing that identation scheme. It really does make it harder to read. That said, the whitespace between chunks of code is well-placed.

Also, I continue to suggest that you have "use strict;" near the top of your program as well.

Notice in your input loop that the scalars that you're putting into @item are also the hash keys you're using for %qty and %price. This would suggest that you want to use the item names in @item as your keys for output as well. Thus, you're looping on the @item list (which is your list of keys), and you can output from all at the same time.

Your output loop, as it is, becomes something like: 

foreach my $item (@item) {
  print "Item: $item\n";
  print "Quantity: $qty{$item}\n";
}

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Note also how I put in a "my" there for $item so that it would pass strict. I hope that you can extend this to include the output for your price as well.

Good luck!

In reply to Re^5: seeking advice on loops by Tanktalus
in thread seeking advice on loops by sierrastar

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