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in reply to Re: Hash/file --> doesn't seem to work
in thread Hash/file --> doesn't seem to work

But this way vou have to read the big file often. As supposed above it would be better, to switch the while loops.

untested:

while(<FILE>) { chomp; my ($objid,$other) = split(/\s+/,$_); while(my ($key,$value)= each (%hash_table)) { if($objid =~ /$key/i) { print "$key is present in $objid\n"; } else { next; } } }