in reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: Clean out da hash...
in thread Clean out da hash...

After you have called clean_hash, why don't you check its contents with 
use Data::Dumper;

...
clean_hash();
print STDERR Dumper(\%hash);
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#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;use strict;use brain;

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