Sorry, didn't intend to be "not so nice". When debugging problems remotely, and aren't intimately acquainted with the goal, people in help forums often focus on the first issues we see, even if they aren't the root cause. Moreover, it seemed reasonable that that it was your root cause (though it turned out not to be) because the new as-of-yet unassigned $files_href created by the second 'my' would have started as undefined, so it appeared that was why it was trying to use an "undefined value as hash reference". I saw what LanX was hinting about, and agreed that it was a good first step in the debugging process for you; since your post indicated you hadn't seen the 'my' issue yet, I tried to clarify, to further help you along toward fixing that part of the issue.

I guess "staring you in the face" might have been harsh -- I didn't intend it to be. Sorry

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