If you are coding an Application Package, and you get this error message:

PeopleTools Affirm Triggered
PSAFFIRM(!pItemFound) failed at e:\pt846-908-r1-retail\peopletools\src\inc\stringhash.h, line 157. See trace file. Press Cancel for debugger.

Here is the solution:

Basically, you have a property with the same name as one of your instance variables. For example:

class ExampleClass
method ExampleClass();
property String ExampleDescription get set;
private
instance String &ExampleDescription;
end-class;

To fix the problem you can change it to:

class ExampleClass
method ExampleClass();
property String ExampleDescription get set;
private
instance String &strExampleDescription;
end-class;