When worried about duplicates, use a hash. It's only a slight change to your code. 
  foreach my $found (@array2) {
    if (&match_names($item,$found)) {
      print "found a match ($item = $found\n";
      $found_one{$found} = 1;     # *** changed line
    } # end-if
  } # end-foreach
} # end-foreach
@save = keys %found_one;

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This will give you one each of the matches. They wont be in the same order as they were found, however. If that's important, then you have to add 
      push(@save, $found)   if !exists $found_one{$found};
      $found_one{$found} = 1;

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inside the loop, instead of doing keys() at the end to load up @save.

Also, as liverpole notes, you have a typo in the assignments for the sample arrays, where you use square brackets instead of parens. The way it's written the code won't work.

In reply to Re: multiple matching in arrays by rodion
in thread multiple matching in arrays by rsiedl

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