First of all, thank you for taking the time to respond. What looked 'funny' to me was the $ { $myref } {$key}. I think I need to take some time to review the 'Programming Perl' book. Specifically Chapter 2 on subroutines and Chapter 4 on References and Nested Data Structures.
Regards,
Terry Kummell
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