use Modern::Perl; open my $fhA, '<', 'FileA.txt' or die $!; my %hash = map { /(.+)\t(.+)/; $1 => $2 } grep /\S/, <$fhA>; close $fhA; open my $fhB, '<', 'FileB.txt' or die $!; say for map { chomp; $hash{$_} } grep /\S/, <$fhB>; close $fhB; #### zzzzz bbbbb xxxxx