Actually, I think you've got that slightly wrong. The original code says:

if(!exists $is_acct{$usershare}){
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Which is searching on key - not value.

Tie::Hash::Regex still isn't a solution because I only implemented the FETCH method, not EXISTS. But it wouldn't be too difficult to add that.

"Perl makes the fun jobs fun
and the boring jobs bearable" - me

You're right, the code says

if(!exists $is_acct{$usershare}){
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but the text says:

"3. Then I am trying to compare all of the values in @dirs against the values in %is_acct for a partial match."

So I think he wants to match the values in the hash and not the keys.

You're right. I was originally matching the keys, but because of the marraiges, I have to match the values.

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