Good catch! That is being added when the program runs, it wasn't a posting error. Looks like I need to get my eyes checked. :)

I've narrowed it down to this bit of code, but for the life of me I can't see how or why it would be adding the empty hash. I've also noticed that I lose the data in the 1958 array after the first iteration of the for loop.

Basically I'm going through each of the years I have data for and seeing if my match appears in any of those years. If it does, it gets put in to @res for display in a list.

Here's the offending code: 

for $find qw((1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964)){
    $index = 0; # index is defined to go down the array of each year
    while (defined $bros->{$find}->[$index]->{$key}){
           if ($bros->{$find}->[$index]->{$key} =~ /$data/i){
           # since we found one, we push the brothers data structure a
+nd
           # year of graduation in to the results hash
           push (@res,{brother => $bros->{$find}->[$index], year => $f
+ind});
           } # end if
    $index++;
    } # end while
} # end find

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I'd appreciate anything you could suggest as to where this might be adding the empty hash!

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In reply to Re^4: Using grep to remove array element from HoAoH leaving empty array-hash element by Popcorn Dave
in thread Using grep to remove array element from HoAoH leaving empty array-hash element by Popcorn Dave

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