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but the workplace won't let me show it.

Then recreate it. Remove any tell-tale comments. Change the variable and subroutine names to innocuous generic ones. If sample data is required to run it, create some that will work that has random string and numbers rather than actual data. Don't forget to remove anything that isn't required to demonstrate the problem.

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