$VAR5 = 'Test2';
$VAR6 = {
          'ShowHome' => 'Home',
          'RightNavExpirationDate' => 20010520,
          'RightNavLaunchDate' => 20010510,
          'ShowPersonal' => 'Personal',
          'SmallGraphic' => '/templatedata/components/msn.gif'
        };
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Yep, that's right. What's happening is that Dumper doesn't know you're passing it a hash; it just gets a flattened list of values, and prints them one after another.

I probably should have suggested this instead:

use Data::Dumper;

print Dumper \%home_dcr_files;  # ref to hash, for nicer formatting
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Thanks a ton fellas...

You had Dumper called wrong. Because it's often so one can read it nonetheless. Call it "Dumper \%hash" ("\" is important) and you will see what it really means:)