Dear all,

I need your help to extract hash keys for values stored in an array (or a scalar).

In my example the hash keeps changing in a loop and so does the the array )or scalar. For example, %hash={a=>2,b=>3,c=>3}, and @array=(3) or even $scalar=3 (since array is really one element, it can be a scalar as easily); I want the script to return either b or c as keys to the value of 3 (b OR c are equally acceptable answers, but NOT both)

I am a newbie to PERL programming, so I am familiar only with using keys, values and each for hashes, but I am not sure how to extract a key given the value in a separate scalar or array.

Thanks...

In reply to Extract hash keys for values stoted in array by onlyIDleft

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