Anomolous, Data::Dumper works nicely (when used correctly). It shows the expected values in the format:

'F29' => '1',
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though I can make no sense of the order in which it displays contents. I have:

my %sheet;
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declaration though it's not initialized. Initialization with:

my %sheet = ();
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doe not make a difference in the result.

Thanks,

Hammer.