Sorry to do this again, I have been spending sometime playing with the code and trying to get it to work. I now have a warning which I have searched for both here and on google but can not find anything about it.

Useless use of hash element in void context at D:\Apache\cgi-bin\hitscounter.pl line 85.
This is the code here: 
#Open database
dbmopen (%hitsdb,$db,0755) || print "can't dbmopen hitsb: $!";

$key = "$Year$Month$hour$referer";

if ($hitsdb{$page} && $hitsdb{$page}{$key}) {

    $hitsdb{$page}{$key}{'counter'}++;
    
    print "appended\n";
}
else {
       #####################
       # LINE 85 BELOW     #
       #####################
    $hitsdb{$page}{$key => {
                'year' => $Year,
                'month' => $Month,
                'day' =>  $month_day,
                'referer' => $referer,
                'counter' => 1
            }};
    
    print "new instance\n";
}


#Close database
dbmclose (%hitsdb) || print "can't dbmclose hitsdb: $!";

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