OK I appreciate the simplicity of the importing of the param info into the hash, and I see now that I was receiving the values but not accessing them correctly. This leads me to a couple of questions:

• Was I making an anonymous hash with my sub? That would explain why the variables were undef, because they were really vars, just hash keys right?
• So how would I add a line(s) so that the sub would automatically translate param( 'this' ) into $this and assign the value it received? I guess I should use map on the hash keys and values somehow? I realize the 'right' way is probably just to use the hash as it is, but I really like having $foo = "bar" to work with.

Any help greatly appreciated.
TIA
jg
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