cant retrieve values from hash reversal (Perl) - perl

Question

I've initialized a hash with Names and their class ranking as follows
a=>5,b=>2,c=>1,d=>3,e=>5
I've this code so far
my %Ranks = reverse %Class; #As I need to find out who's ranked first
print "\nFirst place goes to.... ", $Ranks{1};
The code only prints out
"First place goes to...."
I want it to print out
First place goes to....c
Could you tell me where' I'm going wrong here?
The class hash prints correctly
but If I try to print the reversed hash using
foreach $t (keys %Ranks) {
print "\n $t $Ranks{$t}"; }
It prints
5
abc23
cab2
ord
If this helps in any way
FULL CODE
#Script to read from the data file and initialize it into a hash
my %Code;
my %Ranks;
#Check whether the file exists
open(fh, "Task1.txt") or die "The File Does Not Exist!\n", $!;
while (my $line = <fh>) {
chomp $line;
my #fields = split /,/, $line;
$Code{$fields[0]} = $fields[1];
$Class{$fields[0]} = $fields[2];
}
close(fh);
#Prints the dataset
print "Code \t Name\n";
foreach $code ( keys %Code) {
print "$code \t $Code{$code}\n";
}
#Find out who comes first
my %Ranks = reverse %Class;
foreach $t (keys %Ranks)
{
print "\n $t $Ranks{$t}";
}
print "\nFirst place goes to.... ", $Ranks{1}, "\n";

Answer 1

When you want to check what your data structures actually contain, use Data::Dumper. use Data::Dumper; local $Data::Dumper::Useqq = 1; print(Dumper(\%Class));. You'll find un-chomped newlines.

Answer 2

You need to use chomp. At present your $fields[2] value has a trailing newline.
Change your file read loop to this
while (my $line = <fh>) {
chomp $line;
my #fields = split /,/, $line;
$Code{$fields[0]} = $fields[1];
$Class{$fields[0]} = $fields[2];
}