I am missing something in this snippet... it claims every label only has a single record and then deletes it. I know however that there are SOME duplicates in the list of tapes after looking through it carefully. Did I construct my HoA wrong ... need outside viewpoint ... looking too long at the code any help appreciated. 
   209  sub hash_tapes (@) {
   210
   211      my @tapes = @_;
   212      my %Tape_Cat =();
   213
   214      foreach my $tape (@tapes) {
   215          my ( $label, $protection, $location, $pool ) = @{$tape
+};
   216          push @{ $Tape_Cat{$label} }, [ $protection, $location,
+ $pool ];
   217      }
   218
   219      # Get rid of non-duplicates
   220      my $count = 0;
   221      foreach my $tape (@tapes) {
   222          my ($label,$protection,$location,$pool) = @{$tape};
   223          if ( @{$Tape_Cat{ $label}} < 2 ) {
   224              print "Deleting ". $label.
   225                    "Because it has ".@{$Tape_Cat{ $label }}.
   226                    " record(s)\n";
   227              $count++;
   228              delete $Tape_Cat{$label}
   229          }
   230      }
   231
   232      my @keys = keys %Tape_Cat;
   233      print "Deleted $count keys, keys: @keys\n";
   234      return \%Tape_Cat;
   235  }

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In reply to Hmmm... HoA help ... by talwyn

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