Hi all, So, I'm pretty sure this is an issue (or just process of) with perl ptkdb debugger tool that I use, I wanted to see if anyone has experienced similar issue. The error message I get is like this: ptkdb - >>> exception catched Not a SCALAR reference at (eval 49) line 4.

and I believe this occurs from the following line of code

my %hash = ();
my $h_ref = \%hash;
if(exists $$h_ref{'try'}) {
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I'm pretty sure my dereferencing of the hash reference is correct, and I think it's simply something catched by the ptkdb tool (happens when I do step by step using the tool). The script actually executes correctly without an error if run normally. I just wanted to see if perlmonks knew of this issue (if anyone uses ptkdb) and that I can safely simply ignore this. Thank you!! Happy Thanksgiving!!

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