I have 2 hashes and I am comparing both the hashes. First I check if the Key from hash2 exists in the hash1 and then compare the values. So the question is how do I ignore case when comparing the Hash keys in the below example code. 
#! /usr/bin/perl
#

%hash1 = ("John", 43, "Paul", 25, "Marie", 22);
%hash2 = ("john", 43, "Paul", 25, "marie", 22); 
while (($KEY_2, $VALUE_2) = each %hash2){
    if (exists $hash1{$KEY_2}){
         print "$KEY_2 : Matched\n";
    }
    else{
         print "$KEY_2 : Did not match\n";
    }
}

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In the above example, John does not match with john as keys have different case. How do I ignore case when comparing the keys in the above example? 
Here is the output of the script when you run it
john : Did not match
Paul : Matched
marie : Did not match

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Your help is much appreciated.

In reply to Ignore Case when comparing Hash Keys by avidcoder

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