I am using activestate perl on windows. I have a simple file I am trying to load into a hash. 
"caroline"
30
"andrew"
10

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When I load the file and try to print the value for caroline I get the following error:

Use of uninitialized value in print at test.pl line 41, <DATAFILE> line 4.

Code to open file and print: 
open DATAFILE, "<somedata"
    or die "Cannot open datafile: $!";
%some_new_hash = <DATAFILE>;
print keys %some_new_hash; # This works fine
print $some_new_hash{"andrew"}; # Causes Error

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file created with following code: 
use Data::Dumper;
my %some_hash = (
    andrew => 10,
    caroline => 30
);
$Data::Dumper::Terse = 1;
$Data::Dumper::Indent = 1;
$Data::Dumper::Useqq = 1;

open DATAFILE, ">somedata"
    or die "Cannot open datafile: $!";

print DATAFILE Dumper %some_hash;

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In reply to uninitialized value loading into hash and printing by Anonymous Monk

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