Sure thing. $info{$key} is populated from some JSON fetched from an API call, then decoded, then parsed into perl data objects for handy use within my program.

Here is the output from that added Dump call, just above the output I included before:

SV = PVIV(0x1604e78) at 0x161f2e8
  REFCNT = 1
  FLAGS = (ROK)
  IV = 0
  RV = 0x14b87a0
  SV = PVMG(0x13d6ec0) at 0x14b87a0
    REFCNT = 16
    FLAGS = (PADMY,OBJECT,IOK,OVERLOAD,pIOK)
    IV = 0
    NV = 0
    PV = 0
    STASH = 0x1438a90   "JSON::PP::Boolean"
  PV = 0x14b87a0 ""
  CUR = 0
  LEN = 0
[false]
[66616c7365]
[]
[1]
[1]

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I take it that the presence of "OVERLOAD" among the flags confirms your suspicion. In parallel with posting this, I'll start reading what I can find, based on the hints in this additional output. Devel::Peek is new to me. Thanks for the pointer.

In reply to Re^2: eq evaluates a variable as equal to two different strings by landru27
in thread eq evaluates a variable as equal to two different strings by landru27

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