Could it be you are doing something the equivalent of:

use strict;
use warnings;

my $valuesLine = <DATA>;
my @values = split /\s+/, $valuesLine;
my %data = @values;

__DATA__
one two three four five
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where instead you should initialize %data using something like:

my %data = map {$_ => 0} @values;
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