Okay, question...@data has three variables $id, $name, $ref and @data2 has 5 variables $id, $name, $ref, $type, $owner.

{
    my %data;
    undef @data{@data};
    foreach ( @data2 ) {
        print "This $_ was not found.\n"
            if not exists $data{$_}
    }
}
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This code is matching all 5 variables in @data2 to all 3 variables in @data, thus returning every row in @data2. For a test I took out all but 1 variable from each row in each array and it returned the results I needed. How can I use this code to handle multiple variables or values? And what if I wanted to lookup $name instead of $id.

Thanks!

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