Dear fellow Senior monks, The last few nights were dark for this junior monk.. I have been trying to get some information from an Lotus notes database. For clarity I start off with the source 
use strict;
use warnings;
use Win32::OLE;
use Data::Dumper::Simple;


my $Notes = Win32::OLE->new('Notes.NotesSession')
    or die "Cannot start Lotus Notes Session object.\n";
    
my $db = $Notes->GetDatabase("server", "c_dir/theDBase.nsf")
    or die "Could not open database.\n";

my ($Version) = ($Notes->{NotesVersion} =~ /\s*(.*\S)\s*$/);

#
print "The current user is $Notes->{UserName}.\n";
print "Running Notes \"$Version\" on \"$Notes->{Platform}\".\n\n\n";

my $Count = $db->AllDocuments->Count;
print "\nConnected to ", $db->{Title}, " on ", $db->{Server};
print "\nThere are $Count documents in the database.\n";



foreach my $Index (1 .. $Count) 
{

my $doc = $db->AllDocuments->GetNthDocument($Index); 
my $abst = $doc->GetFirstItem('Abstract');

if ($abst) {
print Dumper($abst);
print "abstract from index $Index : $abst\n"
}

}

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Now , the blessings from the source... The output I get is : 
There are 49443 documents in the database.
$abst = bless( {}, 'Win32::OLE' );
abstract from index 8 : Win32::OLE=HASH(0x1a8fe44)
$abst = bless( {}, 'Win32::OLE' );
abstract from index 31 : Win32::OLE=HASH(0x1a4b57c)
$abst = bless( {}, 'Win32::OLE' );
abstract from index 34 : Win32::OLE=HASH(0x1a4b5dc)
Terminating on signal SIGINT(2)

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The properties of the field/value I am trying to list : 
Field Name: Abstract
Data Type: Text
Data Length: 39 bytes
Seq Num: 1
Dup Item ID: 0
Field Flags: SUMMARY 

"Incompliancy generated"

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I am totally lost, I tried almost everything I can Imagine, if I'm not mistaken the hash is a reference to an object.. Dear senior monks, are you able to shed enlightment to this junior monk ? Thank you in advance, Greetings lost fellow monk.

In reply to Lotus notes, the blessings but not the insight by budoka

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