#!/usr/local/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; my @listOfPass; open(INPUT , "<$input_file" ) or die "couldn't open ($input_file) :$!"; my ($section,%passwds); while() { chomp; if (/^\[(.*?)\]$/) { $section = $1; next; } if ($section eq 'PASSWORDS') { my ($mkt,$pass) = split; $passwds{$mkt} = $pass; $passwds{$pass} = $mkt; push @listOfPass, $pass; } }#end while loop close (INPUT);