#!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; my @castaways = qw( john Jane LUKE ); my @list_1 = qw( not John JANE luke ); my %hash = map { lc, $_ } @castaways; for my $person (@list_1) { if (exists $hash{ lc $person }) { print "$person is a castaway (as $hash{ lc $person }).\n"; } }