#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; my %names = ( 'john' => 'brown', 'jacob' => 'black', 'jingle' => 'gray', 'heimer' => 'greene', 'smitz' => 'purple' ); my %fullnames; foreach my $firstname (keys %names) { $fullnames{$firstname . " " . $names{$firstname}} = 1; } print "$_\n" foreach (keys %fullnames);