Hi,

your problem is either that $lost is undefined, or, as pg has indicated, that $dbm{$lost} exists, but is undefined. You could check for definedness before going through this snippet:

if defined ($lost) {
  if (exists ($dbm{$lost}) && defined ($dbm{$lost}) ) {
    .. the rest of your snippet 
  }
}
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You might also want to check the rest of your code to find out just why either of these two is undefined, and whether that was intentional or not.

CU
Robartes-