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in reply to hash undef?

As moritz has said, testing not defined is better than == undef, but $time{$recordNumber} isn't the only variable involved on that line... I suspect that $recordNumber is the uninitialized value that it's complaining about.

(If $recordNumber is defined and $time{$recordNumber} isn't, I would expect to see the warning "Use of uninitialized value in numeric eq (==) at...".)