Thanks, now Auto-vivication is now a permanent part of my vocabulary. It's funny how a word dosn't mean a thing to you until you have to use it to solve a problem.

It makes sense now..."auto-vivify"...."auto-bring-into-existence". I was searching for "hash delete key".

Also extra thanks Roger for pointing out the "pretty-print" behavior of Dumper(\%info)...a useful "nugget of knowledge".