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in thread multi level hash terror - if statement to access specific elements

… the correct equality operator …
Did you notice that == is not the correct equality operator? Most strings numerically evaluate to zero, so 
'apples' == 'pears'

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is true, while 
'apples' eq 'pears'

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is false.

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