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in thread Sorting a Hash Ref

I apologize, yes that is just part of the dump, I cut most of it for space purposes. I thought I still was using the top tier of it though. Here is a copy of the first entry, including the $VAR.
$VAR1 = { '57e27be8194bb2332a49a942e7aeafeb' => { 'files' => [ { 'file +_type' => 1, 'date +_uploaded' => '2005-09-12', 'file +_name' => 'SOme file PO.tif', 'date +_faxed' => '' }, { 'file +_type' => 2, 'date +_uploaded' => '2005-09-23', 'file +_name' => 'somess 992525 R N.pdf', 'date +_faxed' => '2005-09-23' } ], 'phone' => 'xxx-xxx- +xxxx', 'last_name' => 'Doe +', 'dme_num' => '992525 +', 'old_file' => '2005- +09-12', 'pid' => '57e27be819 +4bb2332a49a942e7aeafeb', 'dme_pid' => '6310b1 +22dad26ec5c6c1c72a15112bb7', 'first_name' => 'Joh +n ' },