If I understood correctly, you want to provide 2 names (for example, "Julia_Roberts" and "Cintheia"), look if both exist in the array and append the "(1,5)" thing to the second. If this is what you want, an array doesn't seem the best way to manage your data, and maybe a hash could be a better solution:

use strict;
use warnings;
use Tie::RegexpHash;
tie my %names, 'Tie::RegexpHash' or die $!;
%names = (
      qr/Julia_Roberts/ => ["Julia_Roberts","(1,5)"],
      qr/Cintheia/      => ["Cintheia"],
      qr/Chelsia/       => ["Chelsia"]
     );

while (<DATA>){
  chomp;
  my @pair = split;
  $names{$pair[1]}->[1]= $names{$pair[0]}->[1];

  print join ("",@{$names{$_}}),"\n" for (keys %names);
  print "\n";
}


__DATA__
Julia_Roberts Cintheia
Julia_Roberts(1,5) Cintheia
Julia_Roberts Chelsia

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This Outputs: 
Julia_Roberts(1,5)
Cintheia(1,5)
Chelsia

Julia_Roberts(1,5)
Cintheia(1,5)
Chelsia

Julia_Roberts(1,5)
Cintheia(1,5)
Chelsia(1,5)

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If it is not what you are trying to do, please be more specific

Hope this helps!

citromatik

In reply to Re: grep with multiple choice by citromatik
in thread grep with multiple choice by sroy5

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