You can't, unless you create a reverse lookup as dragonchild suggests. Consider:
use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dump::Streamer;
my %hash = (
doubleCheeseBurger => 'burger',
cheeseBurger => 'burger',
cheeseSandwich => 'sandwich',
tomatoSandwich => 'sandwich',
);
my %rHash;
push @{$rHash{$hash{$_}}}, $_ for keys %hash;
Dump (\%hash, \%rHash);
Prints:
$HASH1 = {
cheeseBurger => 'burger',
cheeseSandwich => 'sandwich',
doubleCheeseBurger => 'burger',
tomatoSandwich => 'sandwich'
};
$HASH2 = {
burger => [
'cheeseBurger',
'doubleCheeseBurger'
],
sandwich => [
'cheeseSandwich',
'tomatoSandwich'
]
};
Note that the reverse lookup hash has a list of entries for each key because of the many to one mappings in the original hash.
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