Hi, Perl noob here with a distinctly NoobFresh(TM) scented question.... ;-) Comment out "use strict;" in the below and it all works.... uncomment "use strict" and Perl starts giving me abuse about "Global symbol requires explicit package name". Help ! 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
%hash = ( ' Key1', ' Value1');
sub doStringTidy {
        my $string=shift;
        $string =lc($string);
                $string=~s/^\s+//;
                $string=~s/\s+$//;
        return $string;
}
sub doHashTidy {
        my $hash=shift;
        foreach my $k (keys %{hash}) {
                $kv=doStringTidy($k);
                $vv=doStringTidy($hash{$k});
                delete $hash->{$k};
                $hash{$kv} = $vv;
}
}
doHashTidy(\%hash);
foreach my $key ( keys %hash )
{
  print "key:$key, value:$hash{$key}\n";
}

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