If you simplify your data structure you can ditch internal loops, not that it matters

#!/usr/bin/perl -- use strict; use warnings; my ( $hash1, $hash2 ) = @ARGV or die "$!"; my $h1 = read_hash( $hash1, 'reverse' ); my $h2 = read_hash($hash2); use Data::Dump; dd $h1, $h2; while ( my ( $key, $val ) = each %$h2 ) { if ( exists $h1->{$val} ) { print "$key,$h1->{$val}\n"; } } sub read_hash { my $fname = shift; my $reverse = shift || 0; open( my $fh, "<", $fname ) or die "open( < $fname ): $!"; my %hash = (); while ( my $line = <$fh> ) { chomp $line; my ( $key, @vals ) = split /,/, $line; if ( not $reverse ) { ( $hash{$key} ) = @vals; } else { @hash{@vals} = ($key) x int(@vals); } } return \%hash; } __END__ $ perl it2.pl hash1 hash2 ( { val_a1 => "k_a1", val_a2 => "k_a1", val_a3 => "k_a1", val_a4 => "k_a2", val_a5 => "k_a2", }, { k_b1 => "val_a1", k_b2 => "val_a2", k_b3 => "val_a3", k_b4 => "val_a4", k_b5 => "val_a5", }, ) k_b1,k_a1 k_b4,k_a2 k_b5,k_a2 k_b3,k_a1 k_b2,k_a1

In reply to Re: updated: how to loop through hash tables more efficiently by Anonymous Monk
in thread updated_again: how to loop through hash tables more efficiently by lrl1997

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