my $jobFile = $_[0];
	my $key =$_[1];	
	binmode STDOUT, ':utf8';
	print "searching for key $key\n";
	if (-e $jobFile){
		my $propertyHashRef = &readFileIntoHash($jobFile,":");
		my @keys = keys %{$propertyHashRef};
		print "@keys\n";
		my @values = values %{$propertyHashRef};
		print "@values\n";
		
		if (defined $propertyHashRef){						
			if (!exists $propertyHashRef{$key}){
				print "key $key exists in file $jobFile with value ". $propertyHashRef->{$key} ."\n";
				return $propertyHashRef->{$key};	
			}
			else{
				print "key: $key does not exist in file $jobFile\n";
			
			}											
		}
		else{
			&log_this($customer,$ordername,"hash is not defined");				
			print "hash is not defined\n";
		}
		
	}
	else{
		&log_this($customer,$ordername,"cannot find file $jobFile");
		print "cannot find file $jobFile\n";
	}
	print "no form id found in file $jobFile\n";
	return undef;

sub readFileIntoHash{
	my $inputFile = $_[0];
	my $seperatorChar = $_[1];
	if (! $seperatorChar){ $seperatorChar = "="}
	
	&log_this($customer,$ordername,":using input file $inputFile") ;
	my %exportHash;
	if (-e $inputFile){
		open (HASHFILE,$inputFile) || die "file $inputFile konnte nicht geoeffnet werden\n";
		binmode(HASHFILE, ":encoding(UTF-8)");
		%exportHash = map { chomp; split /\s*$seperatorChar\s*/, $_, 2; } <HASHFILE>;
		#while (<HASHFILE>){
		#	print "$_\n";
		#}
		#
		close(HASHFILE);							
		return \%exportHash;
	}
	else{
		&log_this($customer,$ordername,":file $inputFile does not exist, returning undef");			
		return;
	}	
}