Given that the error message explicitly says that $authors{'douglas adams'} holds the value 1 (not 42 ;-) I will give you great odds.....of course he/she could be using $authors{'tolstoy'} = 1234567890 - 1234567889 or similar.

cheers

tachyon

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Yes, thank you for the advice. I was building the %authors has this way: $authors{$author} =1; Once I changed it to $authors{$author} = {}; Everything started working! Thank you very much because I was able to finally finish this module this afternoon. -Suzi (not a he, people are so presumptuous...)

That damned s key. Sometimes it ssssssticks and ometimes he doen't work ;-). I do recall meeting a girl programmer or two but around here they are rare. orry. No offence intended. Glad you got it fixed.

cheer

tachyon

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