for instance, when i call the information for an image, i saw this key and value:

ThumbnailImage => SCALAR(0x84fe774)
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so my little brain saw "SCALAR" and it said to my fingers "dereference it!". so i produce something like this:

[%- USE image = ExifTool(image_file) -%]
[%- thumb=image.GetValue('ThumbnailImage','Binary') ; $thumb -%]
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of course, if the above worked, you wouldn't be reading this message. The error message in question is:

undef error - Template::Stash::XS: get (arg 2) must be a scalar or lis
+tref at ./thumb.tmpl line 4.
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(line 4 is the USE-line)

If I view the variable thumb with Dumper.dump(thumb)... than I can see the binary data. Well I see:

VAR1 = \'[binary data]';
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