Edit: Solution found, thank you ikegami!

I am having consistent issues with an "uninitialized" value warning in my script, and I can't seem to identify the problem: 

package EcomAllcancel;

use warnings;
use strict;

use lib "./feedmodules";
use EcomImportUtilities;

sub execute 
{
    my $biuw = shift;

    my $TABLE = 'ecom_allcancel';
    my $FILE = 'cmdaycan.data';
    my $PATH = "$biuw->{yml}{filepath}/orderinfo/";
    my $table_summary = $TABLE . '_summary';
    my $DATE_COLUMN = 'date_cancel';
    my $ALLOWED_CHANGE = $biuw->{yml}{allcancel_allowed_change}; 
    my $temp_table = $TABLE . '_temp';
    my $feedfullpath = $PATH . $FILE;
    
    $biuw->{log}->info("\n\n**********\nBegin $TABLE load sequence\n**
+********\n\n");

    my $exception = EcomImportUtilities::ageCheck(
        biuw      => $biuw,
        feedpath  => $feedfullpath,
        tablename => $TABLE
    ) unless $biuw->{const}{load_old};
    
    if ($exception->{exception} eq 'outofdate' or $exception->{excepti
+on} eq 'stillcopying') {
        $biuw->{log}->warn("$feedfullpath is out of date. Loading stop
+ped.\n");    
        return $exception;
    } 
    
    elsif ($exception->{exception} eq 'nonexistent') {
        $biuw->{log}->warn("$feedfullpath does not exist. Loading stop
+ped.\n");
        return $exception;
    }

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This is simply the beginning of the code. The $exception hash is loaded into a subroutine on another module, which will return a hash that looks like this:

         my $exception = {
            table => $tablename,
            exception => 'nonexistent',
            data => {
                file => $filepath,
                age => 0,
                nonexistent => 1
            }
        };
        return ($exception);
    }

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I keep getting errors stating that there is "Use of uninitialized value in string eq" at line 34, 34 and 39. From what I can gather, it is referring to the "$exception->{exception}" references, but I can't seem to figure out why this is causing the issue. I declared the $exception, and the $exception->{exception} is declared in the subroutine module. Why would it still be coming back as "uninitialized"?

So far I have tried simply adding a line to the hash (exception => '' / exception => undef) or declare it separately (my $exception{exception};) but the warning persists. I am clearly overlooking something that should be obvious, but I can't figure this one out.

In reply to Initialized Variable getting Uninitialized Warning by drw

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