my $sc = scalar(%messagerecbin);

Side note: This tells you about used/allocated buckets in your hash. Do you want the size of your hash? Use this: 

my $sc = scalar keys %messagerecbin;

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As for the "repeats", there's a trailing "}" on your code fragment -- what is that from? The fragment you posted should write four lines --- so the repeats are probably from a loop that is enclosing the fragment. You need to post more code for a diagnosis.

As a code style question, is there a reason that you're calling &writelog() with an ampersand? It's not necessary in modern Perl unless you need to circumvent prototypes, which you shouldn't be using anyway. (See perlsub for details.)

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