Say I have a table which has values in two columns :- Column1 = $var1 and Column2 = $var2 (note they are both chromosome coordinates so they are bound to be repeated in different columns sometimes).Now I want to store them in a hash such that there is only one instance of $val1 and $val2 in both the keys and values of that hash. How can I achieve it. This is what I have tried so far but it does not works :- Any help would be appreciated 

use strict;
use warnings;
while(<>){
my @val = split/\t/;
 
if (exists $hash_chr{$val[$#val]}){
       next;
    }    
    else{
          $hash_chr{$val[0]}=$value[$#val];
          
      }
}

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In reply to hash with both values and keys unique to each other by perlkhan77

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