in reply to Problem with hashes

Hi!

The reason of this error-message is that there is no entry for $word[-1] in the hash. You could check with exists before to handle that situation.

HTH, Rata

PS.: please use <code>-tags!

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Re^2: Problem with hashes
by rattytatty (Initiate) on Feb 09, 2012 at 15:06 UTC
    I've checked manually for a few of the keys in the hash
    file and the exist. I know for a fact that they all do
    exist as I used them to generate the hash in the first place.
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      Rule one for debugging: checking is better than knowing for sure. So try copying the following code before your print and look what is happening ...: 
      if (exists ($hash{$word[-1]})) 
     { print("$word[-1] OK\n"); }
else { print("$word[-1] isn't in the hash\n"); }

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