@ record looks good:
$VAR1 = '1653'; $VAR2 = '1193'; etc -- and it has the correct values from my sub
now that i look at it, i don't think the next line in the main sub is looking at @data:
$status = &validate_multiple_records(%{$modify_rec{$key}});
so somehow i need to be working on %{$modify_rec{$key}} ??
$VAR1 = '1653'; $VAR2 = '1193'; etc -- and it has the correct values from my sub
now that i look at it, i don't think the next line in the main sub is looking at @data:
$status = &validate_multiple_records(%{$modify_rec{$key}});
so somehow i need to be working on %{$modify_rec{$key}} ??