Thank you for your quick reply. I'm horribly new to Perl and it's nice to have someone looking over my shoulder. I made the change you suggested and sadly am getting an error - probably since I didn't show you all the code....

#all the checks have been run - now sort the 2 hashes, and print out t
+heir contents to the note.
    my $ReleventCount = scalar keys %Relevent;
    if ($ReleventCount >= 1) {
        foreach my $name (sort { $b <=> $a } keys %Relevant) {        
        $RESULTS = $RESULTS . "Severity: " . $name . "\n" . $Relevent{
+$name} . "\n\n"
        }    
    }
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Error: Global symbol "%Relevant" requires explicit package name at PSFT_Automation.pl line 641. Execution of PSFT_Automation.pl aborted due to compilation errors. Again, Thanks for helping me out

Note the spelling: "Relevant" is not "Relevent".

Thank you for your patience. I fixed my spelling errors... *looks sheepish*. Still got the Global symbol "%Relavant" requires explicit package name at PSFT_Automation.pl line 636. Error. (line 636 is the line my $RelavantCount = scalar keys %Relavant; near the end). 2 things look strange to me.. one is I'm declaring the hash at the first line.. Adding to the hash uses $ not %... is that correct? and secondly is this the proper way to get a count of the elements in the hash? my $RelavantCount = scalar keys %Relavant; ?? Again, can't thank you guys enough.

 
my %Relevant;
my %Possible;
 
    foreach my $e (@{$data->{check}}) {        
        #first go though the health checks looking to see if we have r
+elevant checks for this event code        
        if ($e->{Relavant_events} =~ $FindEvent ) {
            $WantedFile = $e->{filename};
            $WantedText = $e->{find};        
            #scan the files for the text we are after
            DXWanted();
            if ($FileStatus == 1) {            
                $Relevant{$e->{severity}} = $e->{note};
                $FileStatus = 0;            
            }
        }
        #we also want to run checks for non-relevant items, so we can 
+add them under the "Automation also found..." text on the internal no
+te.
        else{
            $WantedFile = $e->{filename};
            $WantedText = $e->{find};
            #scan the files for the text we are after
            DXWanted();
            if ($FileStatus == 1) {
                $Possible{$e->{severity}} = $e->{note};
                $FileStatus = 0;
            }        
        } 
    }    
    #all the checks have been run - now sort the 2 hashes, and print o
+ut their contents to the note.
    my $RelavantCount = scalar keys %Relavant;
    if ($RelavantCount >= 1) {
        foreach my $name (sort { $b <=> $a } keys %Relavant) {        
        $RESULTS = $RESULTS . "Severity: " . $name . "\n" . $Relavant{
+$name} . "\n\n"
        }    
    }
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But its spelling is relevant.