Hello, I have a hash table which i am using to loop though a set of filenames to sub routines. The purpose is to run a sub if a file is not there. there are 6 different files and each need a unique action to be triggered based on the files existence. The problem is that the condition is failing. OK enough talk here is the code 

%FileToFunction = ( "$file1", 'emailalert1', "$file2", 'emailalert2', 
+"$file3", 'emailalert3', "$file4", 'emailalert4', "$file5", 'emailale
+rt5', "$file6",'emailalert6' );

foreach my $key ( keys %FileToFunction ) {
    my $value = $FileToFunction{$key};

print "checking $path$key\n\n";

if (-e "$path$key") {
        print  " it exists $path$key\n\n";
        print " found ....:  $value\n\n";
                     }
else {
       print " could not find file $path$key generating alert running 
+sub for $value\n\n\n";
       &$value;
      }

 }

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