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I don't know what is "$test -> {'RecordType'} = UNKNOWN;".

$test is a hash (or associative array) reference.
$test->{'RecordType'} accesses a key of the hash that is referenced.
$test->{'RecordType'} = UNKNOWN; assigns a value to a key of the hash. Unfortunately, it seems as if the bareword  UNKNOWN is being assigned, which has no value. This error would have been caught if the statement
    use strict;
had been placed at the beginning of the code. 

c:\@Work\Perl\monks>perl -le
"use warnings;
 use strict;
 ;;
 use Data::Dumper;
 ;;
 my $test;
 ;;
 $test->{'RecordType'} = 'UNKNOWN';
 ;;
 print Dumper $test;
"
$VAR1 = {
          'RecordType' => 'UNKNOWN'
        };

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Please consider these points and we can go forward from here. (Update: Actually, these seem like pretty basic questions, so maybe take a look at perlintro and some of the articles in Getting Started with Perl first.)

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In reply to Re: Is it hash?? by AnomalousMonk
in thread Is it hash?? by dideod.yang

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