Your problem is this: 

  my($userdb,%group) = @_;

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if you are calling it with this: 

  &GroupCreate($userdb,\%group);

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You are sending the sub a scalar (I assume) and a hashref, but the assignment 

  my($userdb,%group) = @_;

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is trying to assign a hash, not a hashref, and therefore expecting the parameters after $userdb to be a list (i.e. the contents of the hash itself). As an alternative, try: 
  my ($userdb,$groupref) = @_;
  my %group = %$groupref;

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  my ($userdb,$group) = @_;

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FWIW, thats what: 

[Thu Feb  2 22:29:32 2006] test-auth5.cgi: Odd number of elements in h
+ash assignment at /var/wwwssl/auth-test/test-auth5.cgi line 379.

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is telling you.

Update: all the uses of %group in the sub appear to be addressing a hashref $group, with the exception of the assignment, so there's no need to dereference it at all.

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In reply to Re: Confused Still by Hash Refs by g0n
in thread Confused Still by Hash Refs by hesco

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