Hello informed people...

So, I have a very gooky specification, a program takes in text from the command line; like "Hello, how are you", then saves aforesaid text character by character as a folder.

So H gets turned into '01234.H.something' and , into '01234.Comma.something'.

Another program then scans the folder and reads the folder names with a certain prefix and concatonates everything back together before sending it off to get processed and returning a string of its own to be saved as folder names. (I know, very wierd protocol, not my fault ><).

Problem is:
The data comes out of STDIN fine, or out of the response, and is saved fine into the folder names according to a hash table that maps up all the values. BUT during the read process it gets mangled into something like this: 

Hello My Name is Chris:
0ell0 0y0name0i0C0ris

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There doesnt appear to be any logic to the mangling, and i'm at a loss as to what is causing it; although it seems to be linked to my hashtable which is being searched like this: 

sub findCharacterAsKey {
    my $loebnerLetter = shift;
    while (($key, $value) = each %$keymap)
    {
      if($loebnerLetter eq $value) {
        printf("$loebnerLetter maps to $value so returning $key\n");  
+        
        return $key;
      }
    }
}

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Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

In reply to File Reading and Hash Accessing that isn't doing what you'd expect. by Chris_Stevens

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