use strict; use warnings; use diagnostics; my @list = (["qwe", 1], ["qwer", 2], ["tyui", 3], ["asdf", 4], ["ghjk", 5], ["zxcv", 6] ); for my $item ("qwe", "qwer", "tyu", "yui", "tyui") { print grep($_->[0] ~~ /^$item$/, @list) . " " . $item . "\n"; }