in reply to Re^6: check if an element exists in array
in thread check if an element exists in array

I think you haven't thought about this enough. Jim doesn't have a number, he has two. The print above will work in the for loop example I gave in my first reply:
for ( grep { $_->[0] eq $name } @names ) { print $_->[1]; }


Unless I state otherwise, my code all runs with strict and warnings