I just tried to duplicate your problem as follows: 

use strict;
use warnings;
 
 
&foo('gronk');
 
sub foo {
    my %pages = ("index" => '1',
              "me"    => '1',
               "stuff" => '1',
               "links" => '1');
  my $page = shift;
  exit 0 unless $pages{$page} == '1';
}

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and got a similar (or same) result. 
[peter@kennel tmp]$ perl test_eq.pl
Use of uninitialized value in numeric eq (==) at test_eq.pl line 13.

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The good/bad news is that line 13 does correspond to the == operator.

What value is $page set to?

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In reply to Re: Unintialised value? by blue_cowdawg
in thread Unintialised value? by eoin

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