Time for you to say a few hail marys - or drink a few bluddy marys - I can never remember which...

use strict;
use warnings;
use CGI;
my $q = new CGI;

# when assigning 
$hash{'key'} = $q->cookie('key') || '0';
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That narrows down the field.

cLive ;-)

--
seek(JOB,$$LA,0);