Maybe I'm totally misunderstanding you, but I'm envisioning that you have a HoH structure like this:

my %macs = (
  '00:11:22:33:44:55' => {
    'response_status' => 12,
    'response_date'   => 'yesterday',
  },
  'AA:BB:66:12:13:14' => {
    'response_status' => 0,
    'response_date'   => '2004-12-31',
  },
  # ... and so on
);
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And you get some user input, then you look up the data you want:

my $mac = <STDIN>;
chomp $mac;

if ( exists $macs{$mac} )
{
  print "Okay, found mac $mac:\n";
  print "response_status: $macs{$mac}{response_status}\n";
  print "response_date:   $macs{$mac}{response_date}\n";
}
else
{
  print "Sorry, don't recognize that mac\n";
}
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Is that what you meant?