Note that

$aref=\@{$fileinfo{$md5hash}{path}}
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dereferences the array and then creates another reference to it. Preferable might be:

$aref=$fileinfo{$md5hash}{path}
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i.e., don't dereference the array at all, just assign its reference to a scalar for simplicity, readability and maintainability.

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