Hmm.. a little more info..

The reason behind my %data was to localise it to the module. It works without the my, but if I later open another file of data that had the same 'primary keys' it'd overwrite the previous ones. Using my made it local to the particular reference. (Maybe blessing the reference into the package would be a good idea?)

As for the warnings, its a CGI thing, I'm using CGI qw(fatalsToBrowser);, which doesn't chuck out anything nasty at the moment. I'll check it with the -w option when I get away from the ASP stuff I'm writing in the office. By the way, should have mentioned before, this is Perl on Win32.. don't think it'll make a big difference, but it might.

In reply to Re: Re: Odd hash problem. by onion2k
in thread Odd hash problem. by onion2k

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