I guess I should've posted more of the code because I
must not have been clear on my question but I'll
try again. What I need to do is something like:

if (users input)$loc = a specific key in %locs then return the associated
value of that key from %locs.
## Carries out the users input into an action
    print "\n";
    print "Where do you want to copy from? or type help for help\n";
    
my $server = <STDIN>;
chomp $server;

    print "What do you want to copy? or type help for help\n";
    
my $loc = <STDIN>;
chomp $loc;

if ((exists $servers{$server}) and (exists $locs{$loc}))
{
    print "\n";
    print "Ok, Copying $loc Logs from Source: $servers{$server} to tem
+porary location:\n";
    print "$temp\n\n";
    sleep "3";
    print "Ok, all done.\n\n";
    print "Zipping and moving to FTP Server:\n";
        print "$ftp$folfix-$date\n";
}
elsif ((my $server = 'help') or (my $loc = 'help'))
{
    print "$sitrep\n";
    print "---Log abb:\n";
foreach $locs (sort keys %locs)
{
    print "$locs\n";
}
}

else
{
    print "Error: unrecognized server\n";
}

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