in reply to simple hash question

I'm pretty certain if you were to do this:

use Data::Dumper;
print Dumper($hash{$base});

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it would print $VAR1 = 1;. It's exactly what the error message is telling you. You should verify that you're correctly creating your hash. Also, the %hash->{} syntax is deprecated in modern perl.

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