Try replacing the STDIN read with: 
chomp (my $roomcmd = <>) ;

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Without that, $roomcmd will have "\n" as the last character.

I would re-design your House Class as: 

package Room;
sub new {
   my ($class,$id,$type,$desc) = @_;
   return bless {id=>$id, name=>$type, detail=>$descr}, $class;
}
#--------------------------
package House;
  my $roomid = 1;

 sub new{
     my $class = shift;
     my $self =    {
             rooms    => {},
        };
     bless $self, $class;
     return $self;
 }
 sub addroom {
    my ($self, @room_params) = @_;
    die "No room type specified" unless $room_params[1];
    die "I already have a $room_params[1]. No code to add another." if
+ $self->{rooms}{$room_params[1]} ;
    $roomid++;
    $room_params[0] ||= $roomid; # Auto-incremented
    $self->{rooms}{$room_params[1]} =  Room::->new (@room_params);
    return $self; # ALlows "addroom" calls to be chained...
  }
 sub findroom{
    my ($self, $room_type) = @_;
    return $self->{rooms}{$room_type};
  }

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In reply to Re: Use Objects as Hash Values? by NetWallah
in thread Use Objects as Hash Values? by cmikel

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