I found a fix, though I am not understanding why it worked. I am new to both Perl and XML::Twig, so it should be no surprise. I updated the code to reflect the fix. If someone could explain what I am missing, I would certainly appreciate it!

Um, what did you update, where?

I updated the code that I was having trouble with, in particular:

sub DumpOldAds
    { my ($twig,$nisNISJob)=@_;

        my $date = UnixDate("today", "%Y-%m-%d".'T00:00:00');
        chomp $date;
        
        my $adate = $nisNISJob->findvalue('.//JobActiveDate');

        print "\n$adate -|- $date\n";

        if( $adate  ne  $date) { $nisNISJob->delete; }
        else { print $nisNISJob; };
        
            }
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When I replaced "else {$twig->flush} with else {print $nisNISJob), it worked. What am I missing concerning flush not working? Thanks, P