Hi, thanks for responding.

The top of the script uses

use strict;
use warnings;
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The value of $app{"first_name"} is not changed to undef in &print_application but @errors is. print statements confirm both are changed inside of the "if (request_method() eq "POST")" block.

Your statement implies that there is an issue with changing values in the %app hash within the print_application() function. Since you didn't show us the print_application() function nor did you show us the beginning of your script where you (correctly) have 'use strict;', I gave you the most common error which is a mispelling of %app.

Some other possibilities include:

1. Mispelling 'first_name'. Hash keys are case-sensitive.
2. Declaring %app within print_application().
3. Using this script under mod_perl (or some other persistent environment like FastCGI). (You'd be getting a "%app will not stay shared" error, but you might not be looking at the error log.)

Given the dearth of information, this is the best I can do. Good luck!

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