Hey all, once again;

I'm using a hash of a hash of a hash to store some numeric information, and using the actual hash key as a value to be retrieved to be associated with that numeric value for print out. It all representing a score that allows my program to include or exclude that key value to be/or not to be printed out.

When my program decides to save the key and change increment the number, another value is also incremented added to a different hash of a hash within the same base hash a la; 

$Stats{$DestPort}++;
$Stats{$DestPort}{covert}{"$intSrcFound|$hshIPtoDomainIndex{$strDst}|$
+DstIP|$SrcIP|$DestPort|$Protocol"}++;

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But, when I try to retrieve the values, I end up with keys that contain a different $DestPort than the $DestPort I have specified for $Stats{$DestPort}.

So, my program obtains a list @TopPorts, and I iterate through this list, during which time I sort the hash by it's keys and do the following: 

foreach $entry (sort keys %{ $Stats{$TopPorts[$a]}{covert} }) {
    # my code to print out various HTML
        # elements is typically here
}

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Which is where I run into the aforementioned problem of $entry containing an element that should corrospond to $TopPort$a being completely off. Is there an issue with hashes of hashes contaminating each other, or is there some small property I'm unaware of here?

Thanks for everyone's help!

Update <FIXED>: Error occured due to reference conflict with integer/string. Thanks everyone.

In reply to hash of hash - incorrect values? by NathanE

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